Quick Overview
The NuGraf Developer’s 3D Toolkit is a complete drop in solution for OEM software vendors seeking to incorporate high quality 3D computer graphics into existing or new software applications. The toolkit is provided as a series of linkable libraries which are easily integrated into a target application. It provides for a robust and tightly integrated core of ‘C’-callable routines which transform the most demanding datasets into "photo-realistic" images.
The toolkit provides all of the necessary components to build an interactive 3D modeling and rendering system. These components include "photo-realistic" scanline and ray trace renderers, primitive modeling and database management, coordinate space mapping, object and polygon picking, automatic smoothing and processing of raw polygonal data, as well as optimized wireframe output for fast interactive data manipulation.
The toolkit also handles all aspects of the 3D rendering process, alleviating the host application from dealing with such mundane tasks as error handling and recovery, color output conversion (for those output devices with few colors) and file/display output. It features all of the functionality normally associated with a high-end rendering system but neatly packaged into componentized modules.
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Distinguishing Features of the NuGraf Toolkit |
Since its inception the NuGraf Toolkit has grown to encompass a number of distinguishing features and technologies:
· Although NuGraf is described as a drop-in C library, in actual fact it should be regarded as a complete 3D application program but without any form of graphical user interface. With the addition of a graphical interface the toolkit can be used to quickly create stand-alone applications programs such as Okino's award-winning "NuGraf". NuGraf incorporates an extensive list of database support routines, modeling primitives and numerous system functions which allow complex interactive modeling and rendering applications to be quickly developed.
· Over a decade and a half (and counting) of development, testing and tuning. As such NuGraf is a VERY stable software graphics platform.
· Having being ported to numerous machine architectures and operating systems, it can be said that NuGraf is highly portable. In addition, the ability to define custom output drivers allows for output device independence.
· The NuGraf Toolkit is also used as the core technology upon which Okino's "NuGraf", PolyTrans,PolyTrans-for-Maya and PolyTrans-for-MAX products are based. NuGraf is an advanced photo-realistic rendering, visualization and high quality 3D model translation program available for Microsoft Windows. PolyTrans is similar in appearance but designed specifically for 3D model translation and viewing.
· NuGraf supports all well-known features of comparable high-end animation, modeling and/or rendering systems. In particular, NuGraf's renderer implements MIPmap texture filtering, a rich set of parametric primitives, 2D and 3D texture mapping, high-quality anti-aliasing, soft shadows, environment mapping and countless shading parameters.