Low-Cost 3-D digitizer
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HyperSpace(tm) is well-known 3-D digitizing and modeling software from Mira
Imaging, Inc. that works with 3-D digitizers to quickly and easily create
wireframe models of complex real-world objects.
The Immersion Corp. Personal Digitizer(tm) is now available with HyperSpace
software. The Personal Digitizer has an accuracy of 0.035" and a range of 17".
HyperSpace uses XYZ coordinate information from the Personal Digitizer's stylus
to create a 3-D wireframe model which appears on the computer monitor as the
physical model is being digitized. The stylus also functions as an infinitely
positionable camera and light source for "on the fly" viewing and shading of
the 3-D wireframe model.
HyperSpace software modeling tools include reflection, extrusion, surfaces of
rotation, surface patches, auto-smoothing and auto-welding of vertices, and
automatic lofting of surfaces between line segments. HyperSpace models can be
extensively edited by relocating, adding, or deleting polygons and line
segments, or by fitting vertices to cubic splines, lines, and planes.
A mapping function in HyperSpace lets you relocate the physical model relative
to the digitizer and continue digitizing. This means you can digitize objects
larger than the 17" reach of the Personal Digitizer hardware, as well as
digitize the backs, sides, and bottoms of objects which may be inaccessible
from the object's original position on the digitizer.
HyperSpace comes with a DXF converter for exporting HyperSpace models for use
with 3D Studio. Several sample HyperSpace model files are on each CD-ROM which
ships with 3D Studio.
* The complete Personal Digitizer/HyperSpace system price is $1,995. *
For more information, contact:
Immersion Corp.
P.O. Box 8669
Palo Alto, CA 94309-8669
(415) 960-8669