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Is COLLADA Here To Save The Day?

Posted on May 15, 2008
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Aircraft Outline COLLADA™ defines an XML-based schema to make it easy to transport 3D assets between applications - enabling diverse DCC and 3D processing tools be combined into a production pipeline. The intermediate format provides comprehensive encoding of visual scenes Including shaders and physics, and even multiple versions of the same asset. COLLADA FX enables shaders to be authored and packaged using OpenGL Shading Language so that leading 3D authoring tools can work effectively together to create OpenGL / OpenGL ES applications and assets.

Editor’s Note: One of the more promising capabilities I am looking for COLLADA to fulfill is the ability to dynamically load models on-demand. This will allow us to support less capable platforms (like PDAs) with small-footprint aircraft models, loading incremental sub-models as needed.

Formal description courtesy Khronos web site.

Anark To Focus On Enterprise CAD And PLM

Posted on May 14, 2008
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881178 Jet Engine An excerpt from the Anark press release follows. The game UI space has become challenging for many vendors due to the successful penetration of Scaleform Technologies. This expansion sets them up more effectively for head-to-head competition with Right Hemisphere in penetrating aerospace manufacturing and defense aviation support.

-Andy


5/13/2008

Anark Announces Sale of Entertainment Division and Series 4 Expansion Financing

Company to focus on accelerating enterprise CAD-PLM and Visualization business

Boulder, CO. May 13, 2008: Anark Corporation, a leading provider of advanced 3D solutions, today announced that it has sold its Entertainment Software Division, including its award winning Gameface UI software platform. It also completed an additional funding transaction that will allow it to focus entirely on its rapidly growing Enterprise 3D CAD-PLM and Visualization division.

Anark’s Entertainment Division has delivered powerful 3D tools and middleware platforms to leading video game and entertainment content developers since 2002. Anark’s products helped streamline interactive 3D content creation and deployment for many industry leading customers, such as Microsoft, Sony, and Nvidia.

In mid-2007, Anark launched the Anark Core Platform, targeted at the enterprise CAD-PLM market. This revolutionary software platform dramatically reduces repetitive CAD file conversion and preparation tasks, enabling efficient and secure interoperability between producers and consumers of 3D CAD data for applications such as OEM-Supplier data exchange, technical illustration, and visual-simulation.

JSF F-35 May Extend SDD Phase

Posted on May 13, 2008
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JSF F-35 Stand-in

F-35 JSF faces SDD extension

Aviation Week (5/12, Lok) reported that, following a meeting of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Executive Steering Board (JESB) in Amsterdam last month, members are “discuss[ing] the possibility of extending the JSF system development and demonstration (SDD) program by one year, to late 2014.” If approved, the extension “would lead to a longer initial operational test and evaluation program, now scheduled to last from 2011-2014.” In a letter, Dutch state secretary for defense procurement Jack de Vries explained that “[t]he extension is being considered because F-35 initial production, the ongoing technical testing and the pending initial operational test and evaluation — scheduled to start in 2011 — are ‘no longer fully in tune with each other.’” De Vries also said that he “is confident that the F-35A will be affordable,” pegging the F-35’s cost at $49.5 million and arguing that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) “used ‘incomparable’ sets of cost figures for” its analysis of “the F-16 and the F-35, leading to a distorted outcome.”

According to Flight Global (5/12), “A ‘final decision’ to extend the SDD would probably be made by ‘autumn 2008.’” Flight Global noted, “The JESB meets twice a year, in spring and in autumn. The presidency of the JESB is shared by the United States and a partner,” with “every third meeting…held in the country of the co-chairman after which the co-presidency passes to another partner.” The co-chairmanship will next pass from the Netherlands to Great Britain.

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