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3D computer graphics software 259
Related to 3D software
• Swift3D is the marquee tool for producing vector-based 3D content for Flash. Also comes in plug-in form for
transforming models in Lightwave or 3DS Max into Flash animations.
• Match moving software is commonly used to match live video with computer-generated video, keeping the two in
sync as the camera moves.
• After producing video, studios then edit or composite the video using programs such as Adobe Premiere or Apple
Final Cut at the low end, or Autodesk Combustion, Digital Fusion, Apple Shake at the high-end.
• MetaCreations Detailer and Painter 3D are discontinued software applications specifically for painting texture
maps on 3-D Models.
• Simplygon A commercial mesh processing package for remeshing general input meshes into real-time renderable
meshes.
• Pixar Typestry is an abandonware 3D software program released in the 1990s by Pixar for Apple Macintosh and
DOS-based PC computer systems. It rendered and animated text in 3d in various fonts based on the user's input.
Discontinued, historic packages
• Alias Animator and PowerAnimator were high-end 3D packages in the 1990s, running on Silicon Graphics (SGI)
workstations. Alias took code from PowerAnimator, TDI Explore and Wavefront to build Maya. Alias|Wavefront
was later sold by SGI to Autodesk. SGI had originally purchased both Alias and Wavefront in 1995 as a response
to Microsoft’s acquisition and Windows NT port of the then popular Softimage 3D package. Interestingly
Microsoft sold Softimage in 1998 to Avid Technology, from where it was acquired in 2008 by Autodesk as well.
• CrystalGraphics Topas was a DOS and Windows based 3D package between 1986 and the late 1990s.
• Intelligent Light was a high-end 3D package in the 1980s, running on Apollo/Domain and HP 9000 workstations.
• Internet Space Builder, with other tools like VRMLpad and the viewer Cortona, was a full VRML edition system,
published by Parallel Graphics, in the late 1990. Today only a reduced version of Cortona is available.
• MacroMind Three-D was a mid-end 3D package running on the Mac in the early 1990s.
• MacroMind Swivel 3D Professional was a mid-end 3D package running on the Mac in the early 1990s.
• Symbolics S-Render was an industry-leading 3D package by Symbolics in the 1980s.
• TDI (Thomson Digital Images) Explore was a French, high-end 3D package in the late 1980s and early 1990s,
running on Silicon Graphics (SGI) workstations, which later was acquired by Wavefront before it evolved into
Maya.
• Wavefront Advanced Visualizer was a high-end 3D package between the late 1980s and mid-1990s, running on
Silicon Graphics (SGI) workstations. Wavefront first acquired TDI in 1993, before Wavefront itself was acquired
in 1995 along with Alias by SGI to form Alias|Wavefront.
References
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