PDI's profile reached new heights with the release of the animated feature film Antz, which received broad critical acclaim for both its creative and technical merits. In one of the film's most memorable scenes, the maniacal General Mandible floods the ant colony, which survives by linking itself in an insect version of a human chain. Behind this scene, Waterloo Maple's Maple 6 software was instrumental in bringing the surging water drama to life.
Maple is the world's most advanced software system for serious mathematical applications.
Nick has used Maple to solve systems of partial differential equations for fluid dynamics. You get some pretty nasty systems of differential equations when dealing in that area. And the company turns to Maple when applications being developed run into highly complicated maths problems. We use Maple as a powerful tool to crack some of those. It's kind of a big gun.