 nato.0+55+3d was an application software for realtime video and graphics, released by 0f0003 maschinenkunst in 1999 for the mac os operating system. being one of the earliest applications to allow realtime video manipulation and display, it was used by artists for a large variety of purposes, prominently for live performance, vjing and interactive installation. ==design== running in the framework of max (a visual programming interface for rapid prototyping and developing of audio software), nato.0+55+3d extended max by allowing to access and manipulate all the media types that quicktime supports (films, images, 3d models, quicktime vr, etc.).meta 2001: 151 the functionalities included image generation, image processing, control over midi and numerical data, integration with internet, 3d, text and sound. ==history== at the time of its release (the summer of 1999gilje 2005), nato.0+55+3d was in demand as it appeared several years before other similar infrastructures such as gem and jitter (released by the makers of max/msp in october 2002). earlier software such as image/ine developed in 1997 at steim was drawing in a similar direction, but the fact that nato.0+55+3d was operating inside the max/msp framework, using its "visual programming" protocol, provided at the same time greater ease of use and more flexibility,"jitter is far more complicated and more made for engineers/programmers than nato, which was basically a video object library for max/msp, and more fun - it seemed always so fragile, and easy to lose." - mia makela, aka solu, in: {{cite web |url = http://www.skynoise.net/2005/10/06/solu-dot-org-vj-interview |title = solu dot org : vj interview |year = 2005 |accessdate = 
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