CDN Interior Motives Design Awards 2012

Lumiscaphe, official partner of CDN Interior Motives Awards organized by Car Design News

On September 26th, Lumiscaphe participated in an event organized by Car Design News, the CDN Interior Design Awards 2012. This ceremony rewards the work on the passenger compartment of the future performed by students from design schools all over the world.

As an official partner, Lumiscaphe participated in this event by offering visitors a sensational immersive experience. Many undertook it and were delighted by the immersive 3D stereoscopic visualization technology at scale 1:1 in real time.

The device was similar to the one used at SIGGRAPH 2012 (please see article “SIGGRAPH 2012” of September, 4th): two projectors display the images computed by P3D Virtual Sight on two perpendicular screens.

This device, which includes infrared cameras, stereoscopic glasses and a tracking system, displays a 3D scene on two-dimensional screens. The 3D scene is updated according to the observer’s position in the visualization area. The observer thus sees the model come out of the screens and can contemplate it from all angles, as if the vehicle was really in front of him.

Live again this extraordinary experience : The real time demo in an immersive environment.

SIGGRAPH 2012

The Annual Pinnacle of Interactive Technology

SIGGRAPH 2012 was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center (USA) from August 7th - 9th. This international event is the place to discover the latest technological innovations in the field of digital imaging.

“P3D Virtual Sight” -- an immersive experience

Lumiscaphe’s " P3D Virtual Sight" was one of the most spectacular attractions of the convention.  While wearing 3D glasses, guests interactively examined all angles of a motorcycle concept model.  This experience was made possible by linking Stereoscopic Projectors (Projection Design) to a precision tracking system (Vicon), and the real-time 3D image processing power of the software solution P3D Virtual Sight.

Rediscover the experience of the show: the demo real time in an immersive environment.

 

“MediaGallery” -- interactive 2D and 3D documents

This station exhibited custom- developed software for multiuser, interactive, collaboration and review of 2D and 3D documents.  The "MediaGallery" was displayed and manipulated on a Meetiiim multitouch table (Immersion) This prototype application demonstrated Lumiscaphe’s ability to create custom software.

“SDK Workshop” -- real-time 3D using all kinds of 3D navigator peripheral devices

At the "SDK Workshop"station, participants used Cubetile (Immersion), a three-dimensional, tactile device with an intuitive interface, to peruse Digital Aspect Mockup configurations. "SDK Workshop” allowed software integrators to create their own applications and interface with SDK Workshop Lumiscaphe’s Digital Aspect Mockups in real time.

“Web Render” -- remote photorealistic rendering available everywhere

Powerful computers are no longer needed to run complex 3D scenes! The “Web Render” station introduced a Web application for browsing through a Digital Aspect Mockup configuration via an Internet connection, demonstrating that image computation can be performed on remote servers. This means client and server requests can be viewed through model configuration by any device connected to the Internet.

“Patchwork3D-4K” -- in-depth evaluation

At the fifth station, guests fully appreciated the quality, detail and power of Patchwork3D on a 4K screen (Barco), with the high resolution of 4096 × 2160 px.  This, undoubtedly, is the most exciting way to view P3D’s rendering engine.

Lumiscaphe looks forward to sharing its cutting-edge, technological solutions again next year at SIGGRAPH 2013!

SIGGRAPH 2011

Lumiscaphe is featured yet again amongst the giants of the new interactive technologies industry

This year, Vancouver (Canada) hosted the 38th edition of the biggest international gathering focused on computer graphics and new interactive technologies.

As it does every year, in 2011 Siggraph experienced growing success. The biggest firms jostle to participate and promote their good name in the eyes of consumers.

For Lumiscaphe, Siggraph is the most important conference in North America. This conference provides an opportunity to present the quality of its products and the latest innovations in software development and real-time photorealistic rendering to attendees from around the globe.

At the Lumiscaphe booth the public was welcomed to experience the new features of Patchwork3D v5.1

With Patchwork3D release v5.1, Lumiscaphe boosts its flagship software with a multitude of outstanding improvements. These include the the ability to create multilayer materials, creation of local environments, assigning multiple environments on individual surface or surface groups, the ability to assign null surfaces to sets of parts; making it easier to manipulate in a cinematic sequence, addition of multi-cutting planes giving more versatility in the study of product geometry, and much more.

Many new enhancements and expanded functionality have been introduced with the latest release of Patchwork3D v5.1.We invite you to experience them yourself by downloading free trial software from the following address: http://www.lumiscaphe.com/download_software.html

LAVAL VIRTUAL 2011

In Laval, Lumiscaphe introduces version 5.0 of the P3D software suite

Again this year, Lumiscaphe creates a sensation by introducing to the public the new version v5.0 of its P3D software suite.

Along with Patchwork3D, all the programs in the P3D suite now benefit from the improvements of the High Quality Real Time rendering engine. With these new developments the exceptional rendering quality is extended to all of the tools that complement the Patchwork3D v5.0 software.

New software programs to supplement the P3D product range

The international Virtual Reality exhibition is also a chance to introduce the latest software solutions developed by Lumiscaphe to the public.

P3D Frame-it, P3D Web Render, P3D Conf Image now form part of the specialized tools collection which allow you to maximize the amount of content which can be created using a digital aspect mockup.

IMAGINA 2011

Patchwork3D v5.0 given exclusive introduction in Monaco

On the anniversary of its 5th consecutive attendance at the Imagina exhibition, Lumiscaphe provides a sneak preview of its flagship software Patchwork3D v5.0.

At the Lumiscaphe booth, visitors were invited to experience the new interface and the functionalities of Patchwork3D v5.0. There are many enhancements: from the new theme of the interface to the rewriting of the rendering engine which now includes the management of colorimetric profiles, Patchwork3Dsollutions have never been so compelling.

The work done by the development on the new real-time rendering engine once again expands the boundaries of the software and makes it possible to achieve unequalled rendering quality, marking a true break through from previous versions of Patchwork3D.

The list of new functionalities found in this new work is dizzying !
New FBX import, 16-bit Bump management, translation and rotation Gizmos, Plug-in HDR Light Studio Live, support for file Drag-n-drop, spline-based camera animation, just to mention a few.

Siggraph 2010

Interview at Siggraph with our pre-sales specialist, James Brown, filmed by ProductionHUB :

The No. 1 event for interactive technologies

Siggraph 2010, celebrating their 37th international conference and convention this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center (USA) from the 25th to 29th of July.

This major event in the world of interactive technologies is by far the most highly esteemed event among digital design professionals and enthusiasts. Every year Siggraph gathers tens of thousands of visitors from throughout the world, who come to discover the latest technological innovations in the digital field.

Once again this year, Siggraph was a great success; the organizers were highly delighted by the record attendance at the 2010 Siggraph Convention.

Large numbers of amateurs and professionals came to experience the visual offerings from giants of the digital imaging world, such as Pixar, Intel, Nvidia, ATI and Autodesk.the displays of these prestigious companies, for our fifth consecutive year, Lumiscaphe defended the colors of software solutions dedicated to real-time 3D.

Lumiscaphe pulls out all the stops for the Siggraph visitors

Lumiscaphe assembled a team of six people to cover the event: the two Sales Directors (US and Europe), three pre-sales specialists (Detroit, Paris, Bordeaux) and the Managing Director of the company, who welcomed visitors from many different industries at our booth over the four days of exhibition.

The Lumiscaphe booth included no less than seven flat-panel HD screens on which visitors could experience the latest images and animations produced by our software products : Patchwork3D, P3D Anima Suite, P3D Portfolio and P3D Conf Builder.

For our more curious visitors, our team also provided : three workstations for in-depth demonstrations, a touch-screen kiosk which allowed visitors to experience the satisfaction of real-time interactive configuration for themselves, as well as two iPads displaying the latest additions to the Lumiscaphe family of products (see the following paragraph).

Lumiscaphe makes a worldwide exclusive revelation of its Web Server Rendering

Our new product P3D Web Server is a complementary product to P3D Conf Builder and to P3D Conf Explorer. It allows the calculation of images of equal quality to our Patchwork3D rendering, all via a remote rendering server.

The possible applications of this product are numerous: imagine being able to control the rendering calculation of a high-quality 3D image without having the slightest constraint to hardware, and being able to do so from any type of multimedia support (web browser, smart phone, iPod touch, iPad, etc.) all through your basic Internet connection.

The remote calculation of images allows you to dispense with the devices and infrastructure typically necessary to create high-quality 3D renderings.

When combined with our configuration tool, P3D Conf Builder, and with our interface creation tool dedicated to configuration, P3D Conf Explorer, Web Server Rendering allows you to create a very powerful web configurator.

P3D Conf Builder enables easy creation of a complex configuration system and P3D Conf Explorer enables the design of an interface that will drive the Web Server Rendering. This will allow you to give your application the look and feel that is the suited to the numerous possible uses, whether on mobile multimedia devices, kiosk display or more conventionally for presentations to a large audience.

Dimension 3 Expo 2010

Dimension 3 : A forum dedicated to the future of 3D-Relief

The 2010 edition of the “Forum International de la 3D-Relief” [Internation Forum on 3D-Relief], which was held on June 1-3, 2010 at La Plaine Saint-Denis, France, gathered over 3000 visitors from throughout the world, keen to discover the latest developments in the field of 3D-Relief images in films, video games or dedicated television programmes.

The burgeoning growth of public interest in the visualization of 3D relief images bears witness to the considerable technical advances made by industrial companies in the audiovisual field for placing within everyone’s reach the devices and the various communications media dedicated to 3D-Relief images.

The P3D products in 3D-Relief

Dimension 3 is a window open on a world in full growth. 3D-Relief is now developing everywhere; in the cinema, in televisions, telephones, photography cameras, digital photo frames, etc.

Industrial companies are increasingly using tools that exploit 3D-Relief visualization for evaluating their products as close to the final marketable product as possible. Stereoscopy offers synthetic images the sensation of realism that was lacking in conventional 3D images for replacing physical mockups during the final stages of the product validation process.

Since the release of Patchwork3D v3.0 and of Virtual Sight, Lumiscaphe offers in its P3D software suite a stereoscopic visualization mode that allows evaluation in 3D-Relief of the products created in Patchwork3D. The user can, at will, switch from the standard 2D display mode to stereoscopic display in 3D-Relief.

As such, the stereoscopic visualization mode of the P3D software tools adds to the photorealistic image quality of the Lumiscaphe real-time 3D rendering engine, to give users a highly captivating sensation of realism.

SAE 2010 World Congress

Lumiscaphe at the SAE 2010 World Congress

The city of Detroit played host to the 2010 edition of the SAE World Congress, which took place from 13-15 April. This international event accumulated over the three days nearly 10000 visitors from 46 different countries, including experts from the motor vehicle industry, the aerospace industry and the maritime transport sector.

This was Lumiscaphe's first appearance at this congress, during which it presented at its stand the P3D software suite to professionals of these transport industries.

P3D software suite presented for the first time to the SAE visitors

This event was the occasion to reveal to participants the exceptional rendering of Patchwork3D, its outstanding materials rendering quality, the ease of use of the software and its true real-time functioning.

The entire P3D software suite was demonstrated : Patchwork3D with its new modules : the 2D post-processing module and the unfolding module, P3D Ray-it : the ray-tracing software for hight-quality rendering, P3D Anima Suite : the animation module of Patchwork3D, P3D Conf Builder : the configuration tool for presenting a 3D model with all its options and all the various possible combinations and P3D Frame-it which is the ideal tool for enabling marketing representatives to select for themselves the viewpoints that they wish to use for their advertising campaign.

was given using a Dell Precision M6400 laptop computer and its NVIDIA QuadroFX 3700M graphic board with 1GB of video RAM. In order to offer our visitors the best possible viewing experience, a 46” flat-panel monitor was connected to the laptop via an HDMI cable.

For Lumiscaphe, this event was also the occasion to make new business contacts, which appears to confirm the renewed dynamism among motor vehicle constructors and their suppliers.

LAVAL VIRTUAL 2010

Lumiscaphe meets virtual reality specialists

Internationally recognized as one of the three main events in the sector, the Laval Virtual exhibition assembles more than 40 countries worldwide.

The 2010 edition of the International Conference on Virtual Reality, which takes place every year in Laval, was once again a huge success. For this 12th edition, Laval Virtual assembled almost 3500 professional visitors and over 9000 public visitors, all eager to discover the latest innovations and technologies in the field of virtual reality.

This year, Lumiscaphe presented the latest evolutions of its software solution packages. Contents developed with Patchwork3D were also presented to the public at the stands of our industrial partners (AMD ATI, Immersion).

P3D Virtual Sight : immersive presentation at 1:1 scale with stereoscopy

The Lumiscaphe stand gathered many visitors keen to see its software P3D Virtual Sight, the solution for visualization of products in an immersive environment at 1:1 scale with stereoscopy.

This device, composed of an AS3D projector (Projection Design), with a projection area of 2.40 m x 1.80 m and two infrared head-tracking cameras, enables an observer equipped with stereoscopic spectacles with infrared reflectors to be projected into the virtual reality, discovering the observed object in relief at its actual scale.

All who tried it were in agreement: the impression of realism is breathtaking! By virtue of the P3D rendering engine, P3D Virtual Sight faithfully reproduces the image quality of any model produced with Patchwork3D.

The head-tracking system makes it possible to synchronize the projected stereoscopic images with the position and movements of the observer. The view adjusts to the slightest head movement and thus simulates natural scanning of the observer’s field of vision.

Here, for example (see photos), the observer can take a few steps around the vehicle, approach it to examine the bodywork details, or stoop down to examine the undercarriage. Visualization at the 1:1 scale then gives a natural dimension to the study of a virtual product.

The observer can obviously combine this mode of intuitive movement with more conven¬tional navigation, using a control pad/joystick, enabling faster movement around the object.

The Renault vehicle configurator in demonstration at the Lumiscaphe stand

Many visitors stopped at the Lumiscaphe stand to discover the new real-time interactive configurator system with which Renault dealers have become equipped in recent months. What better support for illustrating the full power of the new software developed by Lumiscaphe : P3D Conf Builder.

This interactive terminal equipped with an HD touchscreen uses the P3D Conf Builder technology to visualize and explore all the configuration combinations of a vehicle in real time.

The terminal’s touchscreen offers intuitive navigation in the interface and allows selection of the vehicle options: change the bodywork color, the interior ambience, the wheel trims or the type of car hifi system.

The user can thus configure his car and navigate freely around the vehicle and inside the passenger compartment to experience it in its finest details.

This terminal has the particular feature of being connected to the Renault information systems, which allows the constructor to update its range of vehicles entirely autonomously.

Customized software demonstrations on request

Besides the video demonstrations presenting the latest features of Patchwork3D on a full HD screen, our specialists offered interested visitors the opportunity of discovering the P3D software packages or of enhancing their knowledge by means of personalized demonstrations.

This international exhibition is our opportunity to meet users with very different work profiles. It is a unique opportunity to exchange ideas regarding the future evolutions of our tools and to understand our users’ expectations.

As such, we can already announce that we will be participating in the 2011 edition of Laval Virtual, which will be held on April 6-10, 2011.

IMAGINA 2010

Lumiscaphe attends the European New Technologies and Virtual Reality Show in Monaco

This event, which took place from the 3th to 5th of February 2010 gathered this year nearly 2000 visitors in three days. With 798 companies from 36 countries attending, Imagina is the major event of the beginning of the year for the professionals of the virtual reality world.

For its fourth involvement in a row Lumiscaphe displayed the last novelties of the P3D software suite.

«Participating in such an event is for us the opportunity to present our new P3D software suite to the public, but also to meet professionals who might become industrial partners or new customers.

The displays of our flagship software : Patchwork3D v4.0 aroused a keen interest which is a rather good omen for the future of our software development.

P3D Ray-it, the last born of our software suite, was also a big hit. The 3D imagery professionals, looking for a solution allowing them to associate real-time rendering and picture realism with a raytracing engine, are numerous. P3D Ray-it brings this new rendering ability to our software range.»

Philippe Dieudonné
Lumiscaphe Marketing & Sales Director

The P3D softwares presented in HD

This year, Lumiscaphe was presenting, as a European preview, the last 4K screen from Sony, with its staggering definition (3840px X 2160px !) to enjoy the P3D softwares in very high definition.

The screen definition covers in resolution 4 full HD monitors (2X2). To drive this non-standard display, which requires 4 video entries, Lumiscaphe used NVIDIA's Quadro Plex, equipped with two graphics boards FX 5800.

This set-up allowed a wide public to (re)discover all the magnificence of the textures and the subtlety of materials created with Patchwork3D, thereby giving the viewers a way to appreciate the slightest details from up close or from far away.

Patchwork3D in 3D stereoscopy

On the Lumiscaphe booth , visitors had also the opportunity to discover the new generation of stereoscopic board developed by Planar and distributed by Schneider Digital.

This device, made of two 26’’ screens placed at 120 ° from each other and separated by a mirror semi-reflective, allows, with polarized glasses, a visualization of a 3D scene in raised-relief, thereby reinforcing in a spectacular manner the impression of realism of the models.

The device’s retractable mirror can go from a stereoscopic to a standard rendering in just one movement, thereby enabling an easy swap from 3D stereoscopic presentation mode to a 2D work counter.

This sort of set up is based on an ingenious technology whose main advantage, compared to some stereoscopic systems, is not to reduce the rendering resolution. This constraint is essential to fully appreciate the picture realistic qualities of the textures' treatment on the P3D softwares.

Lumiscaphe is looking forward to meeting you at the next exhibition Imagina 2011 which will take place from the 1st to 3rd of February 2011. In the interim, the all team wishes you a great year 2010 full of virtual emotions.

LUMISCAPHE INTO THE RENAULT SHOWROOMS

Since the beginning of this year a Lumiscaphe software enters the network of dealers in the Renault group.

The interactive preview of the models of Renault models has acquired our latest software P3D Conf Explorer.

You can now pick and choose various options, color bodywork and upholstery of your vehicle by looking at every detail under any point of view with the new 3D display device in real time developed by Lumiscaphe.

This device will soon be extended to the entiere Renault dealer network. A variation of the software to a web application is under consideration to allow all to simulate the configuration of the Renault vehicles from any web browser.