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APEX - CEI visualization software technology |
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Extreme Visualization Application Framework
Imagine your application with high performance graphics running on a
laptop, a supercomputer, a cluster, and the latest virtual reality
theater. Imagine if you did not have to write the code
yourself. Imagine all of this with source code and support.
It’s not fantasy. It’s APEX.
APEX is the foundation for all of CEI’s future products as well as
those from other leading software vendors such as Fluent Inc.
APEX allows application writers to tap the best in visualization
technology without having to be visualization experts.
Features:
• Runs on everything from laptops to the largest supercomputers; Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac OS.
• Uses high-level geometry representations for application data, variable data, and rendering attributes.
• Currently uses OpenGL.
• Easily integrates within your user interface...MotiF/MFC/Qt.
• High-level event handling for graphics windows; easily configured at run-time by the application.
• Graphics optimized for different platforms.
• Multi-threaded.
• Hardware, software and batch rendering.
• High-level picking.
Versatile animation capabilities:
• Transient data
• Particle traces
• Keyframe
Virtual Reality support:
• Workbenches
• Multi-tiled walls
• Caves
• Stereoscopic views
• 3D tracker support
Image Input & Output formats:
• AVI
• EVO
• JPEG
• MPEG
PostScript output:
• Optimized vector
• Raster
• MS embeddable
Geometry formats:
• Extensible plug-in architecture for input and output
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