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- Paracomp ships SwivelMan™!
-
- Contact:
- Paracomp, Inc.
- Phil Inje Chang
- 1725 Montgomery Street
- San Francisco, CA 94111
- 415-956-4091
- VINNYCARR
-
- San Francisco, CA (September 30, 1991):The standard in 3D modeling and the
- standard in photorealistic rendering are now together in the same box. Paracomp
- today shipped SwivelMan, an exciting bundle of the industry standards in
- modeling and rendering on the Macintosh®, Swivel 3D Professional and
- MacRenderMan. SwivelMan consists of a new upgrade, Swivel 3D Pro version 2.0, a
- utility for file format translation and conversion of Type 1 fonts called
- Swivelizer, QuickPICS for animation compression and playback, some additional
- environment maps for use in Swivel, and MacRenderMan version 1.2. The new
- package is shipping now at the retail price of $895 U.S.
- Steve Jobs, owner of Pixar, said, “Paracomp was the first company to embrace
- MacRenderMan, the first company to resell MacRenderMan, and now, with
- SwivelMan, the first company to bundle MacRenderMan with their applications.
- All of us at Pixar are very excited to work together with Paracomp, as we
- expand the mainstream 3D market.”
- One of the most exciting and time-saving new features in Swivel 3D Pro is the
- easy assignment and previewing of shaders, the sophisticated rendering
- descriptions used by MacRenderMan. In version 2.0 of Swivel Pro, shaders can be
- assigned as shader Presets that have pre-defined settings and appear in preview
- form on the model. Using the “BumpyMetal” Preset, for instance, is as easy as
- applying a color, and the model will appear wrapped with a PICT file of the
- “BumpyMetal” effect. After exporting to MacRenderMan, which runs in the
- background, the model will be rendered with a bumpy metal surface, with all the
- photorealism that Pixar has become famous for. The use of Presets can be an
- enormous time saver. There are 20 Presets supplied in the package and 30
- regular surface shaders optimized for use in Swivel.
- This product combination provides the most practical and flexible modeling and
- rendering solution on the desktop. Swivel excels at speed of modeling,
- intuitive use, easy linking of object parts, and speed of smooth shading,
- factors that are critical when designing in 3D. It also supports the use of
- environment maps, texture maps, and animation capabilites for responsive
- visualization purposes. When even higher rendering quality is desired, the user
- can use MacRenderMan to render photorealistic images in the background (under
- MultiFinder). In this way, the user makes the best use of the Macintosh
- platform for different projects or phases of a project.
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- constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation by Apple Computer,
- Inc. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to selection, performance or
- use of this product. All understandings, agreements and warranties, if any,
- take place directly between the developer and the prospective user.
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