Amber Virtual Environment Toolkit is a C++ multi-platform API for developing dynamic virtual environments. Amber provides a high level API for the importation and manipulation of graphical objects. Amber implements three levels of behaviour-laws, styles, and actions. Laws are behaviours that affect all objects in a universe, like gravity. Styles are behaviours that affect a class of objects. Actions are behaviours that affect an individual object. Along with behaviours, Amber incorporates advanced collision algorithms that allow for fast and accurate collision detection down to the "point on a polygon face" accuracy. Amber uses OpenGL as the low level renderer on the SGI platform.
IRIX version compatibility: 5.3
Paul Cattrone
Mgr, Amber Dev Relations
MetaTools, Inc.
6303 Carpinteria Avenue
Carpinteria, CA 93013
USA
805-566-6347
805-566-6385 (fax)
cattrone@metatools.com
For applications in related solution areas, see the following indices:
Visual/Special Effects, the developer index for MetaTools, Inc.
and the product category index for Visualization & Simulation.