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Anark Media

Platform Overview

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ENTERPRISE 3D APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT


The Anark Media Platform is an advanced, production-proven, 3D application development platform designed to create realistic and immersive interactive environments for a broad range of enterprise-class product configuration, visualization, simulation, and training applications. Unlike other solutions, the Anark Media Platform is an intuitive, yet powerful authoring tool and client application that has enabled cost effective creation and delivery of mission-critical visual applications for a wide array of industry leading manufacturing, aerospace, and defense organizations.

Visual Solutions for Visual Communication


The Anark Media Platform solves a wide range of enterprise visual communication challenges, enabling 3D product configuration and visualization, virtual parts catalogs, interactive training, and marketing communication applications. This advanced 3D authoring platform offers the power, flexibility and delivery options required to develop unparalleled interactive 3D applications and deliver content to a broad audience. The Anark Media Platform is a top choice for professional interactive 3D application developers and has been proven to be an invaluable asset for creating small or large scale 3D applications for internally or externally hosted applications.
I have been using Anark Studio to develop training programs for our IFE (In Flight Entertainment) systems for two years. Simulating an entire 777 or A380 is outside the capabilities of other software Ive tested. The new performance enhancements Im seeing in the latest version of Anark will let me move on to even larger simulations. As the software has become more and more robust, I keep finding additional applications for its use; each saving me substantial time and money. This is a top notch product from a company that knows my business. Mark Scansens, Director of Training Panasonic Avionics

Anark Studio 5.0 Interface

3D Product Configuration and Build-to-Order


Reduce build costs and ordering time with interactive 3D feature selection and validation framework, allowing customers to view and customize products in interactive 3D.
Load 3D, 2D, and text-based content stored in a database on

demand using Anark Media Client SDK.

Secure orders earlier in the development cycle with realistic and

visually accurate representations of products and options.

Increase customer satisfaction by allowing them to visualize,

experience, and select optimal features and configurations. data-driven 3D interactive analytic applications.

Assess configuration impact on weight, cost, and space with

Interactive Training and MRO Solutions


Utilize existing CAD and other 3D data for visually realistic interactive training applications. These effective applications allow trainees to visually identify part configurations and then complete simulated maintenance and repair operations in fully interactive 3D environments.
Reduce costs and deliver 3D virtual training applications to accurately simulate complex

training operations.

Accelerate repair procedures by simulating and visualizing complex repair procedures

without the costs and overhead required with physical mock-ups. CAD designs to develop training applications that can be initiated before products reach the market.

Shorten training time lines by repurposing

Immersive 3D Marketing Solutions


Create potent communication applications by transforming CAD and other 3D data into visually stunning interactive presentations.
Explore multiple product configurations and options with

realistic 3D models, textures, lighting, and animations. customers, partners and suppliers.

Demonstrate and evangelize product designs with Eliminate the need for expensive physical prototypes and

mock-ups in order to demonstrate the capabilities and benefits of new products. stimulating interactive media that can be tracked and analyzed.

Increase customer interest and retention with visually

3D Product Pre-Visualization
Deliver realistic and animated virtual prototypes, resulting in improved concept designs, presentations and evaluations that increase your bottom line.
Bring products to market faster with interactive 3D visualizations and

simulations of parts and assemblies before they are prototyped or produced. virtual prototypes to explore form, fit, and function prior to manufacture. early in the development cycle using life-cycle visualization.

Save costly re-engineering expenses by building

Optimize design and manufacturing processes

Features and Capabilities


Production Proven Platform Anark Media Platform is used by leading professional 3D developers to build enterprise visualization applications for industry-leading manufacturers. Powerful 3D Engine Anarks state of the art 3D engine displays interactive 3D applications across a wide variety of platforms. High Visual Quality Exceed customer expectations by providing realistic 3D visual imagery that clearly demonstrates product capabilities and differentiators. Broad Playback Support Run 3D presentations on over 90% of existing computers. Utilize 3D CAD Geometry and other 3D Models Import lightweight models created with Anark Core derived from original CAD designs. Import 3D models and animation from other sources exported in the COLLADA format. Comprehensive Data Import Directly import 3D models, 3D animation, images, sounds, video and other media. Asset Re-Use Repurpose existing 3D data directly from the design or manufacturing process to cost effectively reuse valuable graphic assets for real-time presentations. Integrate Anark content directly into existing authoring tools and applications. Dynamic Text Provide crisp, professional, and full-featured text that integrates seamlessly into your 3D applications. Robust Interfaces To External Data Sources Create data-driven visual applications by interfacing with SQL and XML based data sources. XML Support Load XML data from external files and then reference that data using the scripting engine. Dynamically Load Anark Playback Modules Dynamically load Anark presentations into running presentations at runtime to reduce load times.

Competitive Differentiators
True 3D Authoring Environment Unlike most other interactive application authoring solutions, the Anark Media Platform was designed explicitly for 3D content and interactive 3D visualization and simulation applications. Industry Standard Scripting Interface The Anark Media Platform supports JavaScript natively which allows application developers to leverage their existing skillset and focus on application development, rather than learning a proprietary scripting language and syntax. Flexible Application Distribution and Publishing Applications developed with the Anark Media Platform can be packaged and distributed as desktop executables, embedded within web applications, or within other C++ or C# applications. In addition, presentations created with the Anark Media Platform can be published as a 3D screensaver, or exported as rendered video. Familiar Application Authoring Interface Compared to other 3D application authoring solutions, the Anark Studio user interface was designed to be instantly familiar to anyone with experience using Adobe Flash or Adobe Director.

Technical Information
User Interface 3D authoring environment Drag and drop objects and components Dockable windows Tabbed palettes Workflow Universal Inspector palette Storage palette with thumbnails Refresh file Multiple undo/redo Composition Tools 3D layers Unified 2D/3D environment with rulers and snapping Blend modes (screen, multiply, etc) Multiple cameras (including edit cameras) Video mapping on 3D objects Basic 3D primitives (Rectangles, spheres, etc) 3D Engine Real-time 3D engine Hardware acceleration for high-end machines 3D software rendering for low-end machines Level of detail and distance culling Lights (point, spot and directional) Text Paragraph text Perspective text Embedded or referenced fonts Font styles (bold, italics, etc) Tracking and leading Scrolling Text labels Small File Size Highly compressed binary file format Optionally stream video, images, music Animation Professional Timeline Animate any numerical property Keyframe-based animation Timeline snapping / guides Cut/Copy/Paste Data Connectivity (Requires Client SDK) Runtime loading of Anark playback modules XML support LMS support Physics Highly precise vector-based collision detection Walk through collision Particle generator 3D Import Anark Core via COLLADA exporter Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 via COLLADA exporter Autodesk Maya 2010 via COLLADA exporter 2D Import PSD (Photoshop) PNG, TGA, BMP, JPG Video Import MOV, AVI, MPG, ASF, WMV M1V MPE Audio Import OGG, WAV, MP3, AIF Anark Media Studio 5.0 System Requirements Intel Core 2 Duo or Quad processor, 2 GHz or faster NVIDIA Quadro FX Series 1700 or better 4 GB RAM 5+ GB free disk space Microsoft Windows XP Professional, SP2, 32bit Microsoft .NET 2.0 SP1 (installed if not present)

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