From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: biz.next.newprod
Subject: Xanthus International Announces Graphity - Business Graphics for NeXTSTEP
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:07:28 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com

For more information please contact:

   Jesper Lundh
   Phone:+46-8-612 89 95
   Fax:+46-8-612 89 96
   Email:graphity@xanthus.se


Xanthus International Announces Graphity - the Business Graphics
Application for NeXTSTEP

Stockholm, December 4, 1992 - Xanthus International AB today
announced Graphity, its business graphics application for the
NeXTSTEP computing environment.

Aimed at corporate and scientific users with a need to visualize
data, Graphity is a tool both for novice and professional users to
create charts and diagrams from data. Several chart types are
supported, including powerful three dimensional charts with shading,
light sources and different surfaces and textures.

Graphity has an easy-to-use interface with inspector panels for all
different chart types. All the different components of a chart, like
legend, titles etc, can easily be moved and resized individually.
Colors and fonts can be set by the Color and Font Panels in NeXTSTEP.

For example, Graphity can show charts that are "hot-linked" to data
in Questor, the spreadsheet application from Xanthus. Graphity can
also be used to visualize data from other applications through a
powerful API. Finally, Graphity can create stunning three dimensional
charts for use in presentations and documentation.

"Graphity is an extremely versatile tool," says Jesper Lundh,
marketing manager at Xanthus."You can use Graphity all by itself,
together with the Questor spreadsheet application or as a powerful
data visualizer for your own custom applications."

Selected Graphity features:

- 3D charts based on Renderman.

- A powerful API, based both on Distributed Objects and
Speaker/Listener, that allows other applications to easily control
and send data to Graphity.

- "Hot-links" to the spreadsheet application Questor (like
Presentation Builder and Lotus Improv).

- Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new
palettes with customized charts and graphics.

- Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on a graph sheet.

- Images and sound can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on a graph sheet
to create stunning documents including external graphics and sound
effects.

- Unlimited undo. All commands can be undone and the number of undos
are user defined.

- The following 2D chart types are supported: bar, stacked bar, line,
area, stacked area, scatter (x,y-plot) and pie.

- The following 3D chart types are supported: bar, area and pie.

- Multiple light-sources for 3D charts that can be positioned
individually.

- User defined shaders and textures for 3D charts.

Graphity is now beta tested at selected beta sites.

Graphity will be available Q1 1993 through selected resellers
worldwide.

For more information about Graphity or if you want to become a
Graphity beta site, please contact graphity@xanthus.se


Xanthus International, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a
privately owned software development company that specializes in
the NeXTSTEP platform. Xanthus International was founded in 1990.


NeXT and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc.