Graphics Applications

The Celestia program was written to be platform-independent. SGI OpenGL functionality provided basic capabilities for building the visualization solution, but Chris wanted to maximize visual clarity and give users the best possible views of the existing data. Reliability also became a challenge, as Chris discovered that many OpenGL software drivers were unstable and buggy. When combined with NVIDIA graphics platforms, the Celestia program delivers the best image quality to scientists, students, and anyone visually exploring space. tech news

FileNet Image Services is an enterprise-class imaging system tailored for high-volume applications such as claims processing, forms processing, and mortgage origination applications. FileNet Image Services provides a secure archive for images and their index data and metadata, from which users can search for, retrieve, view, annotate, and manage documents online. The system uses a relational database for the index data, and typically archives images to an optical storage library - which provides a write-once-read-many (WORM) approach to storing images in unalterable format. tech news

WGBH provides a diverse menu of educational services in the public interest. Some of these services are broadcast over the airwaves; others take the form of books or CD-ROMs, online services or multimedia classroom tools. WGBH's challenge was to deliver a truly accessible interactive user experience, reaching users through sound, animation, games and educational simulations. WGBH turns to Macromedia Flash when it wants to deliver a truly interactive user experience, reaching users through sound, animation, games and educational simulations. With the introduction of XML and HTML support in Macromedia Flash 5, WGBH began building large Macromedia Flash applications with more text than was previously possible. tech news

CartoonNetwork.com is a leading site for cartoons on the Internet, with hundreds of games featuring the world's most popular cartoon stars, plus television's largest online trading community, video clips, schedule information and more. CartoonNetwork.com needed a robust web development and design environment to create a seamless gaming experience that would allow players to compete head-to-head in a live, real-time environment. CartoonNetwork.com had earlier versions of Macromedia Flash and knew the technology integrated well with their Java Servlet environment, so when they saw that Macromedia Flash MX had built-in XML socket object functionality, they decided that their familiarity with the product and its new capabilities would save time and money while developing gToons. tech news

American Airlines Passenger division is the largest scheduled passenger airline in the world. The challenge for American Airlines was to develop training courses for employees in divisions such as Flight Attendant, Pilot, Maintenance and Engineering, Reservations, and Airport Customer Service. In the early 1990s, the group saw an opportunity to incorporate the advancing technology of computer based training (CBT) into its training and development programs. At that time, a highly skilled group of designers and developers worked with Macromedia Authorware to convert more than 400 hours of Security, Cargo, and Customer Service training to CBT. Today, the Corporate Flagship University delivers hundreds of hours of training each month using Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Flash, and Fireworks. tech news