Intuitiv'3D Professional
A Professional 3D Modelling Application
intuitiv'3d was a complete modeling and rendering environment in three dimensions for all designers, architects, illustrators, and hobbyists - with a fast, easy-to-use interface.
Features:
Concepts/Interface - Libraries/Inspectors for 3D primitives, lights, shaders and custom 3D shapes to drag-and-drop into the views; Save and recall object parameters in libraries; Multiple simultaneous 3D worlds; 3DScrapbook to store objects, camera viewpoints, display options, rendering options.
Modeling - 3D ClipArt libraries; Drag-and-drop of RIB files with object decomposition; Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG): grouping / ungrouping of 3D shapes into sets, volume sets, unions, differences and intersections
Navigation - WorldBrowser to move through a world hierarchy, name and have direct access to 3D shapes and groups. Its structure, design and use was similar to the browser of NeXT WindowManager; 3 complementary modes to move/rotate/scale 3D shapes and groups: direct mouse manipulation, keyboard, inspectors; Working plane could be fully customized; 3D grid to constrain motion/rotation/scaling; Align/center tools.
Camera - Real-time Quick Renderman view; Display options (Bounding Box, point cloud, wire frame, faceted, smooth) with variable tessellation; 3 orthographic displays on which the user intervenes to drag objects/shaders from the libraries and create the design using the tools; Perspective display; Drag-and-drop of viewpoints and display options; Put on object, center functions
Lights - Types of lights: ambient, distant, spot, point; Generic lights for special light shaders (slide projector, window light...); 3D representations of lights for easy positioning; Automated shadows; Shadow maps parameters for expert users.
Shaders - Supported shaders: surface, light, displacement, volume; Drag-and-drop and ShaderWell interface; Shader Panel permited the user to fully access and tune any shader parameter; Easy generation of maps from TIFF or EPS for use with texture, bump, emboss
Ergonomic tools to translate/rotate/scale a texture map among a shape; Automated generation of environment maps for use with any shader requiring reflective information: glass, shiny, shiny metal; Full compliance with PixarLooks and Valis Group Shaders; Automatic icon generation for visual retrieval in libraries
Rendering - Smooth Quick Renderman view to monitor color/lights/shaders effects; Snapshot rendering to test Photorealistic Renderman rendering in real-time on part or totality of the scene; Rendering speed could be controlled through the quality level; Drag-and-drop of rendering options; Multi-host rendering over a network; Save rendered images as 32-bit color TIFF files
intuitiv'3d Modeler - Extended 2d drawing tools with editable bezier curves to create any complex 2D shape; Creation of volumes from 2D shapes with extended extrusion, lofting, lathing and sweeping tools.
Extensions - Fully extensible via an API: documentation, include files, and source code are available to programmers.
What makes intuitiv'3d best:
Developed under NEXTSTEP, intuitiv'3d applied the object-oriented paradigm to 3D modeling in a way never done before. This resulted in a very intuitive approach of all 3D functionalities, allied to an ease-of-use unequalled by its competitors.
intuitiv'3d provided innovative features such as the manipulation of all objects by drag&drop (shapes, groups, lights, shaders, display settings, shaders, light sets, functions or rendering settings) , storing of all objects in the Scrapbook, visual libraries of shapes and materials, or management of the world with a NEXTSTEP like browser...
intuitiv'3d provided the unique concept of Metashaders, which permited users to easily create their very own shaders.
intuitiv'3d included an Application Programming Interface which was available free-of-charge to all developers who wished to develop their own module over the intuitiv'3d Engine, or/and adapt intuitiv'3d to specific professional requirements.
intuitiv'3d was conceived as a modular environment : users could acquire the specific modules that feed their needs, and progressively extended their 3D world with additional modules (ZZVolume Link soon available, Motion module was scheduled last quarter 1994).
Required NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 or higher. Shipped in Multi-Architecture Binary (MAB) format.
Intuitiv'3D Professional is a registered trademark of Cub'X Systems. All Rights Reserved.
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Intuitive Systems. Inc.
$695
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