Photo-Quality 3-D Renderings for Industrial Design with Lumiscaphe's Patchwork3D Software (Z085)

Chicago, June 9, 2009 (word count: 521)

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Lumiscaphe’s Patchwork3D™ software solution is a revolution in 3-D real-time realistic rendering of digital mockup. Dedicated to all product manufacturing industries, architecture and even communications and film industries, Patchwork3D enables the user to dress existing CAD models in just a few hours. Easily integrated into existing CAD programs, this fast-working software helps reduce design time and costs, while increasing design possibilities with options to add photo-quality lighting and materials to models. Lumiscaphe will present Patchword3D and its other design software at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans from August 4 to 6 at booth 2135.

Patchwork3D is a post-modeling software tool for industrial CAD and complementary to existing CAD systems on Windows PCs. The user can import 3-D shapes designed with his traditional CAD system. Interactive testing and visualizing various combinations of shapes, materials, and lighting in real-time helps speed up the product design stage, saving costs over time. Lumiscaphe's rendering technology offers unrivalled image quality during digital mockup exploration and allows real-time editing of visual characteristics such as covering materials (selection of grain and its fineness, colors and textures, transparency and refraction, reflectivity), complex scene illumination, and 2-D unfolding of complex 3-D surfaces for fabrics simulation, and much more. What's more, the fast rendering technology allows rapid creation of 3-D synthetic pictures or video animations to assist the customer and salesman during marketing presentations and product customization.

The software's tools are conceived and organized to increase productivity and self-training of novice users. In fact, Patchwork3D is designed for two levels of expertise: Beginners may easily access basic functions for easy handling of 3-D objects, and experts have access to advanced functions for sophisticated shapes and materials aspect tuning. Thanks to its innovative technology, Patchwork3D is the first tool that allows both realistic and real-time viewing of large and complex models. The workflow brings 3-D CAD models to life via several elementary operations: import and clean up CAD models, improve and optimize geometry, unfold complex surfaces for texture mapping, illuminate and dress models with photo-realistic lights and materials, and finally, present the models using 3-D real time realistic rendering. Direct real-time interaction with models during authoring stage enhances the designer’s creativity and speeds up the exploration of alternative designs.

This technology, which has received several awards, makes it easier to interactively oversee the Digital Aspect Mockup. Patchwork3D is applicable to all sectors incorporating industrial design such as automotive, aerospace, parts manufacturing, household appliances and furniture, sport accessories and toys, 3-D special effects and landscapes for illustration or film. Faurecia, a leading supplier of automotive seats, interiors, front ends and exhaust systems, uses Patchwork3D for designing vehicle seats and instrument panels.

Patchwork3D was Lumiscaphe's first commercial product that integrates into existing CAD systems. In view of the great interest expressed by its customers for Patchwork3D and the strong technological potential of this product, Lumiscaphe has expanded its range of great products recommended at an international level in the domain of industrial CAD and 3-D image synthesis. New optional modules include: P3D Unfolder Tool™, P3D Anima Suite™ and Virtual Sight™. New products to address customers' marketing needs include P3D Configurator™, P3D Conf Explorer™ and Portfolio™.

For more information, please contact:

LUMISCAPHE
Pascal Cammas
P.O. Box 11974
Naples, FL 34101
Tel.: (239) 285-9530
E-mail: cammas@lumiscaphe.com
Web: www.lumiscaphe.com

or:

FRENCH TECHNOLOGY PRESS OFFICE
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740
Chicago, IL 60601
Fax: (312) 327-5261
E-mail: contact.ftpo@ubifrance.fr