3D Modelling & Rendering

To propel its transformation from a predominantly hardware-oriented company to a services-led technology company, Unisys needed to differentiate itself and respond to client needs with innovative service offerings. After adopting IBM Rational tools to improve and enhance the way Unisys development teams built solutions internally, Unisys leveraged tools from IBM Rational Suite Enterprise and best practices from IBM Rational Unified Process to enable its new 3D Visible Enterprise strategy. tech news

As content providers are struggling to implement these architectures, the adoption of powerful next generation consoles is sharply increasing. This, combined with the recent introduction of inexpensive consumer electronics devices such as TiVo and ReplayTV, creates an opportunity to exploit media creation and manipulation capabilities in a thick client model using the existing broadcast infrastructure. This paper explains the concept of the Real Time Television Content Platform and discusses how this concept can deliver custom experiences with very few infrastructural changes. tech news

This paper discusses some of the differences involved in implementing high performance 3D games on Symbian OS when porting from Pocket PC, and then goes on to provide some general hints and tips for 3D game programming on mobile phones. Specific reference is made to the techniques used in Interstellar Flames, which does its own software 3D rendering and is available on both Pocket PC and Symbian OS (Series 60 and UIQ). The main areas covered in the first section are generating timer events, handling keys and pointer input. tech news

The document was originally written with a view to giving a methodology for regenerating standard V4 Sheetmetal features within V5 using the PowerCopy functionality. However, the use of PowerCopy for these particular elements was found to be very limited. This is therefore now a report into the use of PowerCopy for Sheetmetal features at V5R7 and current limitations found when trying to regenerate these features. tech news

This document compares capabilities of V5 CATIA Drafting to those we are very familiar with in CATIA V4. The intent of this document is to allow those involved in the CATIA V5 sales cycle to establish quick high-level evaluation of customer and product readiness for migration to CATIA V5 from an existing V4 environment. tech news