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Mitsubishi Electronics America's Real
Time Visualization makes public debut at SIGGRAPH '99
San Mateo, CA--August
10, 1999: Mitsubishi
Electronics America's Real Time Visualization Makes Public Debut at
SIGGRAPH '99: World-class Partners Come Together to Demonstrate Real-Time
Volume Rendering Applications Including Medical Visualization, Geospacial
Visualization and Animation
Mitsubishi Electronics Americas Real Time
Visualization division (RTViz) is celebrating its official "coming
out" party at SIGGRAPH '99, featuring some of the newest and most
advanced real-time volume rendering applications for its VolumePro®
500 board.
The VolumePro® 500 is the first product
of its kind to bring real-time volume rendering capabilities to desktop
PCs. Application partners from IBM, SUN Microsystems, AVS, Kitware
and State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook are demonstrating
how this technology is available for applications including medical
visualization, seismic imaging, atmospheric research, geospacial visualization
and animation.
"SIGGRAPH is the ideal spot for VolumePro®'s
debut," said Jamie Jacobs, general manager for RTViz. "As the graphics
industry's biggest conference, we expect to challenge this community
to higher levels of realism and performance with VolumePro®.
With the applications developed between RTViz and its world-class
partners, this new product will radically change volume graphics in
many industries."
The true value of VolumePro® comes
into play in objects with internal structure. Real Time Visualization's
VolumePro® 500 accelerator board features an ASIC rendering engine
that is able to transform one million bytes of volume data per second
into 500 million Phong-lit and colored samples per second, enough
volume to render a 256 cubed dataset in real time.
The VolumePro® board is configured
with 128MB of usable volume memory, enough to store 512 x 512 x 256
volume slices. VolumePro® comes equipped with a rich set of hardware-assisted
features such as cropping, slicing, line or plane cursor support,
super-sampling, multiple light sources and more, all calculated on-the-fly.
The board is easily programmed using the Volume Library Interface
API, which are a set of C++ classes that exist within an open GL context.
The VolumePro® board is available immediately
and ranges in price from $2,995 to $5,495, depending on configuration.
Software development kits (SDKs) are available for application developers
and system integrators.
About TeraRecon, Inc.
TeraRecon, Inc. is a technology-driven provider of advanced 3D imaging
systems for medical and other visualization applications, with solutions
based on its unique and patented image processing technologies. The
company has developed a leading portfolio of products that advance
the performance, quality, functionality, and integration of image
processing and 3D visualization systems. Founded in 1997, TeraRecon
has developed a unique family of powerful processors that are used
in its real-time diagnostic workstations, enterprise-wide 3D imaging
servers using thin-client PCs, color Doppler ultrasound systems, mini
gamma cameras, high performance reconstruction engines, and real-time
volume rendering hardware engines. TeraRecon is a fast growing, privately
held company with headquarters in San Mateo, CA, and branch offices
in Concord, MA; Tokyo, Japan; Osaka, Japan; and Trondheim, Norway.
Contact:
TeraRecon, Inc.
Robert Taylor, Ph.D.
COO & Executive VP
650.372.1100
taylor@terarecon.com
www.terarecon.com
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