"HOW AN INDUSTRIAL GROUP WAS CONVINCED BY LUMISCAPHE FOR THE REALIZATION OF THEIR PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR "

Le Journal des Entreprises, 2 Dec. 2011.

The challenge: the young 3D real-time software solutions publisher Lumiscaphe won over a prominent customer: Renault

«Three years ago, the direction of information technology and marketing departments initiated a consultation of many companies at the international level.

Their will was creating a new configurator - an interactive sales aid tool available in sales points – in order to present their customers with their various vehicles. Other than real-time 3D rendering and image quality, this tool had to have a centralized management in order to allow automated information updates.

For a year, the number of meetings with Renault decision makers increased, along with the number of software models and demonstrators. Lumiscaphe engineers brought very precise technical answers about our software solution Conf Builder and its possible development».

Listening to the customers to understand their needs

«Our asset was our availability to identify their needs precisely and propose solutions accordingly.
Instead of having customers put a technical name on a function to develop, we foremost try to make them describe what is expected from it. In such cases, the trap of developing a theoretical tool, however appealing, should be avoided. All this must have made the difference between us and our competitors, along with the asset, as a small company, of being responsive and our commitment to meeting the deadlines.

The fact that Renault was already a customer of ours also played a part. Seven years ago, the design department had been won over by the image quality and real-time rendering of our flagship product Patchwork3D which they used for car interiors design. They had purchased a license in less than three months».

Reassuring the customer about the company’s longevity

«Bringing Renault to entrust a small company with producing their new generation of configurators was the most difficult part. In both contracts, we were fortunate to deal with a company which has retained its pioneering mindset and its willingness to bank on an innovative product.

Given the size of our company – we were only seven employees three years ago -, it was quite a gamble. We had to reassure them about this and the longevity of our company. We worked a lot on putting companies’ size into perspective. Today, Renault is our first customer.

The software solution is now operational and will become even more powerful. This contract is also a great reference for promoting a technology we’ve sold to other companies ever since».

REALISTIC 3D RENDER AND REAL TIME

CAD-Magazine, May-June 2011.

LUMISCAPHE releases the latest version of its software Patchwork3D dedicated to processing digital mockups in real time 3D

Patchwork3D benefited from a complete rewriting of its render engine. As a result, more performance is reached and the revised colorimetry offers images closer and closer to reality.

In the framework of a project review, this tool enables the design and sales staff to modify their product’s colors and textures and to visualize the result whilst moving freely inside the scene.

This application program is appreciated by car manufacturers and automotive suppliers, but also in luxury goods industry. These customers can also rely on two new complementary tools: P3D Conf Builder and P3D Web Render.

P3D Conf Builder is a digital aspect mockup configuration management tool. Its interactive configuration editor uses your 3D databases to elaborate a complete line of products.

P3D Web Render allows running digital aspect mockups directly on the Web. It relies on distant servers to perform render computations. Thanks to this system, you can visualize your products from every angle and configure your models in real time whichever the interface connected to the Web (tablet-PC, smartphone, etc.)

REALISM IN REAL TIME

CAD-Magazine, March-April 2011.

Virtual immersion efficiency relies on the quality of the images generated in real time

If communication or training can be satisfied with a photorealistic render, the physico- realistic approach becomes essential in design or in project reviews.

For Lumiscaphe, the new features of version 5 of Patchwork3D are the flexibility and ease of use of multilayer materials, as well as the introduction of physic-realistic parameters for the Fresnel effect, including an extinction index specific to the material used (metals, polycarbonate, minerals…).

LUMISCAPHE ANNOUNCES A NEW SPECIALIZED SOLUTION IN THE CONFIGURATION OF PRODUCTS FOR THE INTERNET

www.CAO.fr, November 3rd, 2010.

P3D Web Render: the configuration of products on the Internet with the rendering quality of Patchwork3D

Lumiscaphe announces P3D Web Render, its 3D solution for the configuration of products for the Internet, mobile phones and touch tablets.

Based on its real-time 3D rendering technology, the P3D Web Render platform uses a company’s CAD data output from the P3D Conf Builder software. This gives customers the ability to produce high-definition photorealistic images which can be distributed via standard Internet protocols.

Website creators can rely on P3D Web Render, providing them an interactive tool for viewing and configuring products on their client’s website. Industrial companies also benefit from P3D Web Render, using their Intranet to create images for various departments within the company.

Looking toward the Web of the future

With the latest evolutions of its software platform, Lumiscaphe has facilitated the integration of its tools into their clients information systems. Processing and updating models at the engineering stage can now be automated, reducing costs and providing an excellent return on investment from their various production tools.

With P3D Web Render, Lumiscaphe is satisfying a crucial need in the market : The ability to provide multiple variations of real-time 3D visualization products without requiring installation of software or plugins on a user’s workstation.

This new product – created from the company’s knowledge and history in 3D visualization – compliments its offer in the market of 3D product configurators and reinforces their position in the sector of digital asset mockups.

LUMISCAPHE REVEALS ITS VERSION V4.0 OF PATCHWORK3D

Paris - December 5th, 2009.

Truly packed with technological innovations

2D and 3D visualization has now become a fundamental tool in many fields. The Lumiscaphe company which specializes in the design of novel software technologies in the field of real-time photorealistic 3D rendering, has announced its new version 4.0 of Patchwork3D. This fully integrated, complete solution offers real-time visualization of 3D models of outstanding quality.

A new high-performance version of Patchwork3D

In the face of the changes in real-time technologies in the industrial sector, and to meet users’ demands, Lumiscaphe has unveiled, after nine months of development, its very latest version V 4.0 of Patchwork3D.

This more efficient and more powerful version is now available as a full 64 bit version. In addition, Patchwork3D V4.0 provides many improvements and novelties that strengthen the P3D package for even more optimal image processing and the most realistic possible rendering.

The major innovation : the real-time 2-D post-treatment module

By virtue of this post-treatment module, the new version V 4.0 of Patchwork3D offers users the possibility of combining many real-time 2D effects on the final rendering of the image, while maintaining the grain effect. The post-treatments may be exported in .kfx format to facilitate their reuse and to be configured in metric or pixel size.

The creation of aspect layers

Aspect layers can decompose the dressing of your models to work effectively in the range between your products. Their ease of use allows you to explore an infinite number of combinations quickly.

More efficient selection, material and snapshot editors

A new selection editor in Shaper makes it possible to memorize and call up several selections, and can use regular expressions working on the name of surfaces (e.g. selection of all the surfaces having a name beginning with “inter”), but can also memorize the assignment of materials and labels to surfaces of the aspect layers in order to view the final aspect of the product.

By virtue of the snapshot editor, snapshots are now in conformity with the real-time 3D visualization (aspect ratio of the image, section planes, grid and reference frame).

The material editor allows automatic reporting of the sizes of the assigned texture, so as to conserve its scale, which metric sizes are imported directly from the original file, in DPI format, or are input by the user.

A new integrated flattening module

This module, which is already integrated into the Patchwork3D solution, offers the possibility of exporting the metric image of the pattern as bitmap and vectorial 2D images, but also of selecting a preview texture to be plated onto the surface, by virtue of the improvement in the interface and the algorithms.

HDRI environment

The P3D solution uses the HDRI format as support for the HDR environments, which gives a more precise working space and easier and more coherent integration of the synthetic data with the 2D images.

A new ray-tracing engine

This new rendering engine uses the technique of throwing rays to calculate transparencies and inter-reflections in P3D scenes.

Many other new features are included in this version 4.0 of Patchwork3D

The creation of primitives, new formats for import and export, export to FryRender, and many others ...

LUMISCAPHE LAUNCHES HIS NEW SOFTWARE P3D CONF BUILDER

JournalAuto.com - November 24th, 2008

3D presentation configurator.

Renault and the Bordeaux-based company Lumiscaphe have developed in close collaboration a novel configurator based on the P3D Conf Builder software (a tool for managing and exploring product configurations) published by Lumiscaphe, with the aim of presenting in 3D in the showrooms the range of Renault’s vehicles.

This new intelligent tool will enable potential clients to view in real time and in 3D the model that corresponds perfectly to their choice, given that all the configurations provided in the catalogue by the manufacturer’s marketing department will be viewable. Furthermore, the system will be connected to the company’s computer system and will therefore be able to integrate any future changes.