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HOOPS Visualize

Visualization, Essential for 3D Modeling,
Presents Challenges to Application Developers
Graphics development requires unique capabilities,
different from 3D modeling
Some platform specific solutions or internally developed
solutions limit 3D application success
Quality or performance significantly affects users
experience

HOOPS Visualize Enables 3D Application
Developers to Focus on Innovation
Proven, high-quality graphic capabilities allow developers
to focus on core-competencies and add competitive
differentiation to their product
Robust support for both OpenGL and Direct3D, as well as
leading graphics cards, removes limitations for most 32and 64-bit platforms
Industry leading technology to create a competitive
advantage for your application

HOOPS Visualize is the industry’s most powerful, portable and
complete graphics development component for creating or
enhancing 3D applications. HOOPS Visualize helps developers
accelerate the development of high-performance 3D
applications for desktop, cloud or mobile applications using the
high-level graphics APIs that power applications in CAD/CAM/
CAE, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), manufacturing, and
many other markets.

HOOPS Visualize Simplifies 3D Graphics
Applications Development
Internal development of a graphics engine often occurs in
tandem with the application itself - over time becoming so
intertwined that it is difficult and costly, if not impossible, to
maintain and enhance. In contrast, HOOPS Visualize provides
developers with a clear, well documented API, making a
HOOPS-based application much easier to develop, maintain
and enhance.

HOOPS Visualize Expands Hardware
and Platform Coverage
In order to maximize market reach, applications must perform
well on a wide array of hardware platforms. HOOPS provides
this coverage by optimally driving both OpenGL and Direct3D.
This dual driver support is vital to broad hardware coverage
since OpenGL remains the optimal graphics acceleration
approach on some Windows hardware and all non-Windows
platforms, while DirectX is significantly better on more recent
Windows hardware. In addition to this OpenGL/DirectX
coverage, HOOPS also provides platform flexibility, running
Windows, Linux and several UNIX platforms.

HOOPS Visualize Delivers the Graphics
Quality Users Expect
With most 3D applications focusing heavily on visual realism
as a competitive differentiator, the end-users’ graphics
expectations have increased dramatically. HOOPS gives
developers the tools to effectively compete by easily adding
advanced visual capabilities such as shadowing, textures,
transparency, gooch rendering and other shader-based effects.