CARBON GRAPHICS ANNOUNCES THE IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF GEO TERRAIN IMPORTER™ - A PLUGIN SUITE FOR THE IMPORT AND PROCESSING OF DIGITAL TERRAIN DATA


PARK CITY, Utah, August 24, 2004 -- Carbon Graphics LLC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Geo Terrain Importer™, a suite of plugins dedicated to the import and processing of various digital elevation terrain formats.

Geo Terrain Importer adds DEM (Digital Elevation Model), DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) and SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) format support to the Geo real-time 3D modeling and animation package.

The package provides a post-load uniform or adaptive Delaunay polygon reduction capability that results in drastically reduced triangle counts. Once the terrain is generated, Geo's object placement and texturing tools can be used to complete the terrain database.

Andy Bushnell, Carbon Graphics' President stated: "We are very excited about the new Terrain Importer module and the added flexibility it provides to our existing and future customers. Geo Terrain Importer is an extremely powerful terrain import and triangulation tool-set that is an ideal front-end to Geo". Mr Bushnell further added: "The combination of Geo and Terrain Importer allows Geo to be used in the creation and modification of larger database construction projects."

About Carbon Graphics

Carbon Graphics LLC is an innovative company specializing in software products & services for the Visual Simulation market. Their flagship product is Geo - a 3D modeling and animation tool used for building, editing & animating dynamic real-time models and scenes. Visit the Carbon Graphics Web site at http://www.carbongraphics.com

About the Terrain Importer

The Terrain Importer package was developed by Radiant Perspectives. Radiant Perspectives specializes in developing cutting-edge software for the real-time 3D graphics community. As one of the first Carbon Graphics 3rd party developers, they are responsible for developing the Geo Loft tool, the Delaunay triangulation plug-in, and GeoREAL™, the Geo stand-alone instrumentation run-time module.

For further information regarding this press release or Carbon Graphics, please contact:  

Alison Weckler, Director of Marketing
Carbon Graphics LLC
(435) 649-9874
alison@carbongraphics.com

Carbon Graphics and Geo are trademarks of Carbon Graphics LLC. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned in this press release are the property of their respective owners.