Burlington, MA (USA) – July 19, 2010 – Visualization Sciences Group (VSG) is pleased to announce the release of Open Inventor® 8.1, the new version of their popular object-oriented 3D graphics development toolkit. Open Inventor 8.1 is now available for C++ and .NET, on Windows and Linux[] 32-and 64-bit platforms.

Thanks to numerous optimizations, generalized use of the latest OpenGL techniques, and finely tuned memory consumption, Open Inventor 8.1 delivers a display rate which is now nearly equivalent to graphics hardware peak performance. This new release also introduces a dynamic display resolution mechanism, where advanced rendering effects are progressively applied during interaction, refining image quality on the fly, without sacrificing interactivity. Volume masks and real-time shadows are two major new features provided by VolumeViz 8.1, while the MeshViz XLM 8.1 extension benefits from more parallelized extraction algorithms and significantly improved performance. Finally, ScaleViz 8.1 now takes full advantage of multi-GPU configurations, with optimal performance on NVIDIA QuadroPlex® systems, using the NVIDIA CompleX™ engine.

About VSG – Visualization Sciences Group:

VSG – Visualization Sciences Group is the leading provider of high-performance 3D visualization software and toolkit for engineers, scientists, and applications developers. They provide advanced 3D software technologies for scientific data visualization, engineering and simulation, materials science and earth sciences.

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