Impulse Inc. 6870 Shingle Creek Pkwy, #112 Minneapolis, MN. 55430 (612) 566-0221 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: INTRODUCING "TURBO Silver" ------------------------- Turbo Silver New Features 1. SPIN.... allows you to make objects that are symetrical along the Z axis. You can now make objects like wine glasses, chess men vases or even cigars. Spin allows you the ability to pick the amount of sides to any object, thereby making objects that appear smooth as well as facited. 2. EXTRUDE...with extrude you can create free form objects that will be extruded along the Y axis. This feature makes creating letters and other unique objects a real snap. 3. STENCIL...by using any picture created with any IFF paint program, the user can create a black background or zero color and draw or manipulate one other color, to create a stencil. When traced in Turbo Silver, the zero color will show the background as though it were gen-locked and the other color image will show normal. This feature allows creation of logos and the like for fast and efficent flybys, rolls and moves. Stencils will cast shadows and act as in all manners, just like any other Silver object, with the exception of depth, the Stencil is only one pixel deep. 4. 3D Wire Frame Editor. this feature allows the creation of almost any type of shape that can be you can imagine. This feature allows you to create your own set of shape tables. 5. New Shapes.. In Silver 1.X you were able to only use the base primitives. With Turbo Silver you can use the 3D editor to make shapes or you can call from the Custom Menu one of some preset shapes they are :... Spheres,Cones, Torus, Tube, Ring and Disk. These have the same names as the older primitives, with the exception of the same name all of the objects are created using triangles. This gives you the ability to squash and stretch on any axis. 6. Surface, Silver no longer has a ground, we found that a ground is not the most tidy way to create a good trace. If you wish to have a ground you can now create your own using surface. 7. Refraction...Turbo Silver now has true refraction, ie you can create objects that are air, (clear) glass, water and crystal, In the event that you would desire to create an object with the refraction index of Emerald you can do so by using the custom refraction index menu item. 8. Octree Tracing Techniques. This new technique similar to the techniques used on much larger machines gives Turbo Silver it's new name. With this technique applied to Silver you trace times will be reduced dramatically, In some cases there is a 100 fold decrease in trace time. As only an aproximate example a trace that would take 6 hours in Silver 1.X will now take on the average of 35 minutes. The other important feature of Octrees is that you will no longer have to do any bounding. In reality bounding is automatic. 9. Improved color pallete with Phong shading techniques. This feature gives the final rendered cell real visual "PUNCH"! 10. Virtual Disk storage. All cells that are created are saved to disk. The will allow the memory of the computer to be unencumbered with excess information floating around in the computer. This featue has two advantages. One, the computer will never be asking for as much memory and this leads to less fragmentation of memory. The other advantage of a virtual storage system is the fact that once created in the editor the information is saved immediately. In the rare occasion of a GURU or other problem like power out, the information and file that you have been wroking on will be intact. 11. Greater control over both lighting models with a wider range of latitude in brightness . The Moveable light can also be associated with an object or group making rotation and movement very easy and controllabe. 12. Editor new features. Co-ordinate marker. This info box will tell you at all times just where you cursor is in any view. 13. Join ...a new command in the Editor allows you to take two different objects and connect them together on a very permanent basis. This command also resolves the overlapping of other triangles making the smoothing of these objects very clean and crisp. 14. The axis (old null point) now has all three co-ordinate markers shown. By the addition of these markers the world of Silver has fixed axis and the objects have their own axis. This attribute will allow you move in realtive world space or just the space of the object . 15. Tweening and Story creation. This feature allows you to create a complete story or animation without having to create each cell. Simply tell the objects what to do and over what period of time. Turbo Silver does the rest. This feature alone will make your animations simpler and quicker to create. 16. THE BEST FEATURE ALL ? Turbo Silver is now only $199.95 - Complete! Current Registered owners of Silver may upgrade to TURBO SILVER for only $30.00. To order Turbo Silver or your upgrade today give us a call on the IMPULSE HOTLINE at 1-800-328-0184. Upgrade customers please have your serial number handy it's located on on the back of your Master program disk.