This collaboration allows a new class of advanced visualization applications that require the seamless blending of polygonal graphics and voxel-based volumetric rendering.
Polygons define surface characteristics and are represented as geometrical mesh triangles.
Users have long desired the ability to render and visualize both primitives together in real time. The first fruits of this collaboration are optimized drivers from 3Dlabs for its Oxygen family of professional graphics accelerators. The drivers are expected to ship from 3Dlabs in the third quarter of 2000. Its leadership in professional graphics and responsiveness to the requirements of integrated 3D graphics, makes 3Dlabs the natural partner for us. RTViz sells to OEMs and systems integrators from industries that cover a broad range of vertical markets, including medical, geophysical, scientific, industrial, simulation, research and others.