"The visual nature of the Silicon Graphics solutions really speeds things
up. The ability to capture-at a glance-attributes of what you're working
on can really save a lot of time."
Proximity used the Developer Magic environment to create the company's HomeView product in a surprisingly short time. The materials-based architectural visualization system, which allows the interactive exploration of exterior domestic building products, takes advantage of Pixar's Photorealistic Renderman(TM) for rendering image components. Developer Magic streamlined the entire development project and made it "actually enjoyable."
-Tom Mander, Proximity, Sydney, Australia
"RapidApp has significantly reduced our development time. Compared with
hand-building our GUI, RapidApp has cut the required development time roughly
in half."
Mediascape offers Artstream, an integrated illustration, page layout, and photo-retouch application with comprehensive tools for creating complex and detailed artwork and performing image processing. The Developer Magic tools accelerated Mediascape's development cycle and let them tie Artstream into the Indigo Magic(TM) desktop. Mediascape used RapidApp to explore new GUIs, ProDev WorkShop to track variables, memory usage, and X/Motif events, and Software Packager to bring it all together.
"We find that we can design the whole product more quickly on Silicon Graphics systems--and then we can port it to any other target platform we choose."
-Howard Luby, Mediascape, Birmingham, Michigan
"The benefit of the Silicon Graphics platform is that it's not just hardware.
Tools such as Open Inventor give us the ability to prototype a concept well
before we develop a product, and cut our development time significantly".
Landmark Graphics Corporation uses Developer Magic in the production of leading- edge geoscience and engineering applications that create detailed computer models of the earth's surface. Open Inventor provides Landmark with a complete set of viewers, manipulators, objects, editors, and animation engines to simplify construction of interactive applications.
-John Gibson, Landmark Graphics Corp., Houston, Texax
"ProDev WorkShop has the best debugger I have ever used because it understands
C++ and it knows how to handle multiprocess programs, which very few debuggers
do."
Avid Technology, Inc., used the Media Libraries and the ProDev WorkShop debugger to produce a truly Killer App for nonlinear editing of full-motion, full-size video. This desktop video solution, MediaSuite(TM), combines high-quality video with all-digital flexibility and control.
-Mark Flecchia, Avid Technology, Tewksbury, Massachusetts
"Support we've been getting out of Silicon Graphics has been pretty much unbelievable. It's unlike any support we've had from any other company we've dealt with."
-John Malcolmson, JEOL
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