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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Path: sanguish From: John Jay Feiler <relief!jjfeiler@uu6.psi.com> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Tesseract v0.95a now available. Message-ID: <1993Jul23.073032.410@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Reply-To: tesseract-info@relief.com Organization: Next Announcements Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 07:30:32 GMT Approved: sanguish@digifix.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Peterson Versatile DevelopMent 10121 Portland Ave. E. Tacoma, WA 98445-3953 Phone: (206) 531-7525 / (206) 799-2080 / (206) 536-7638 FAX: (206) 572-4195 Relief Consulting and Development 4926 152nd St. SW Edmonds, WA 98026-4433 e-mail: tesseract-info@relief.com (NeXTMail Welcome!!) Relief Consulting and Versatile DevelopMent announce Tesseract v0.95a SEATTLE, WA, July 22, 1993 - Versatile DevelopMent announced today availability of Tesseract version 0.95a, the 3D modeling and animation program for NEXTSTEP computers. Tesseract is the only inexpensive 3D modelling and animation package available today for NEXTSTEP computers. Tesseract provides a simple interface to RenderMan primitives via a drag-and-drop palette, and an advanced spline-based animation model that allows virtually any aspect of the animation sequence to be changed smoothly over time. Tesseract also provides the ability to convert any PostScript font to a 3D font for use in animations. Tesseract allows the user to save any shape to a custom palette, along with its animation parameters, and then save that palette for future use. Tesseract allows multiple views of the same animated scene, as well as the ability to move the virtual camera through the animated scene. Animations may be rendered as a sequence of tiff images, and then viewed using the PD app Movie2.51, available from the archives. The current release, v0.95a, is the third general beta release, and is being made available for a special pre-release price of $149, $89 US Educational. As with the previous releases, anyone purchasing this version is entitled to a free upgrade to version 1.0, expected to be available 3Q93. This version has greatly enhanced animation capabilities, as well as more RenderMan primitives. Tesseract is available at the standard NEXT ftp archive sites, cs.orst.edu and sonata.cc.purdue.edu in pub/next/submissions, but will probably move to a more appropriate directory soon. It is also available directly from Versatile DevelopMent at the address above. The demo can be activated by purchasing a license key from Relief Consulting or Versatile DevelopMent. Relief Consulting and Development, of Seattle, WA, is an independant NEXTSTEP software development company, also available for custom projects. Tesseract is a trademark of Relief Consulting and Development. NeXT, and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe, Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. ###
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