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Providing ad-hoc polygon reduction system, VizUp v2 enables users to reduce number of polygons in complex 3D model while retaining quality and appearance of original. Resulting 3D model has balanced level of details and size, making it suited for virtual reality and real-time visualization systems. VizUp automatically picks necessary parameters without manual interference. Users can examine result of reduction in 3D from different perspectives and in different visualization modes.
Original Press Release:
Compressed 3D Models Still Look Great with VizUp 2
VizUp Technology unveils a new polygon reduction system that enables anyone to reduce the number of polygons in a complex 3D model up to 90% without much effect on its visual quality
VANCOUVER, Canada. - January 26, 2006: VizUp Technology today announces the unveiling of VizUp 2, a new product family, which embraces VizUp Standard, Professional and Enterprise edition. VizUp is an ad-hoc polygon reduction system that enables you to reduce the number of polygons in a complex 3D model while retaining the quality and appearance of the original. The end result of the reduction is a 3D model with a well-balanced level of details and size, which is perfect for the use in virtual reality and real-time visualization systems. The process of reduction is extremely simple and doesn't require any advanced knowledge. VizUp automatically picks all necessary parameters without any manual interference on your side.
VizUp has a refreshingly uncomplicated user interface, which consists of the 3D viewer in the center and a toolbar with all commands and options ready at hand. Once you loaded a model, you can compress it with a single click on the Reduce button on the toolbar. VizUp performs the compression automatically. The best thing in it is that a model is compressed for all possible ratios at once. This means you can see the effect of any compression level instantly without having to restart polygon reduction each time for 10%, 20%, 30%, and other ratios. Another good thing about VizUp is its unique ability to retain the original look of a model. VizUp doesn't change the coordinates of the vertices and it results in minimal distortions during texture mapping even at high compression ratios. You can examine the result of reduction in 3D from different perspectives and in different visualization modes. This includes displaying a model as a set of textures, a set of smooth surfaces colored according to the material properties, as an object consisting of flat polygons, as a wireframe, or as a set of vertices.
Version 2 of VizUp builds on the success of the previous release that saw a high customer adoption in 2005 and received favorable comments and recommendations from customers like the one that belongs to Stuart Williams from Virtuality. "I have tried out several commercial polygon reduction tools in the past, and this is easily as good or better than them. It's extremely simple to use and the polygon reduction is great. Very useful for simplifying models made with nurbs or metaballs. It reduced a high-poly vrml model from 617kb to 115kb with practically no difference in appearance. I had to check the wireframe view to be sure of what I was seeing."
VizUp's Features at a Glance:
- High quality of complex model optimization;
- Extremely simple and user-friendly;
- Optimization is performed automatically, no parameter tuning necessary;
- Decrease the number of polygons dramatically without loosing quality;
- Perform optimization only once - simultaneously for all possible reduction ratios;
- Visual control for model tuning during the process of optimization;
- Built-in 3D viewer is intuitive and lets you examine your model;
- File structure stays the same - comments, text format, etc. do not change;
- Supports VRML 2.0/97 file format.
Pricing and Availability
VizUp 2 runs under Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003. The product is distributed as a Standard edition with fast reduction, $299 (USD), a Professional edition with advanced reduction, $595 (USD), and an Enterprise edition optimized for very large models, $1495 (USD). All these editions can be securely purchased via VizUp's online store at www.vizup.com/store/index.html. Registered customers are entitled to updates with discounts and technical support. Additional information on VizUp 2, as well as its evaluation version with a disabled Save option is available from www.vizup.com.
About VizUp Technology
VizUp is a developer and publisher of 3D and CAD/CAE polygon reduction and visualization software. The company is currently storming the market with its VizUp product line, which represents a breakthrough in polygon reduction technologies. As one of its strategic goals, the creative team sees a further improvement of this technology to make the quality level of automatic polygon reduction equal to that of a human designer. In the nearest future VizUp Technology plans to release new versions of their software for designers working in the entertainment industry, computer and video game development. The company was founded in 2002 and based in Vancouver, Canada. For more information, visit www.vizup.com.
An evaluation copy of any of VizUp 2 is available for review purposes.
Contact Sergei Zavelski at support@vizup.net for more information or to request an evaluation copy of VizUp 2
Product page link: www.vizup.com
Direct download link: www.vizup.com/load/vizup.exe (0.92 Mb)
E-mail: support@vizup.net
