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5.1.11 MASSIVE
This is a 3D animation system for generating crowd-related visual effects, targeted for use in
film and television. It was originally developed for controlling the large-scale CGI battles in
The Lord of the Rings
. Massive has become an industry standard for digital crowd control in
high end animation and has been used on several other big-budget films. It is available for
various Unix and Linux platforms as well as Windows (http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/MASSIVE_(software)).
5.1.12 Maya
Autodesk Maya 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with
comprehensive tools for animation, modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, match
moving, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. This software is
currently used in the film, television, and gaming industry. Maya has developed over the
years into an application platform in and of itself through extendibility via its MEL
programming language. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
(http://usa.autodesk.com/maya)
5.1.13 Poser
Poser is a 3D CGI rendering and animation software program optimized for models that
depict the human and animal figures in three-dimensional form. Poser has a basic library of
human, animal, robotic, and cartoon figures. Poser software package also include poses, hair
pieces, props, textures, hand gestures and facial expression (http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Poser).
5.2 2D graphics software
2D graphics software is used to manipulate texture to be applied to the objects which
enhance their visual details. 2D graphics software (also known 2D graphics editor or
drawing program)
is an application-level software for the creation of images, diagrams and
illustrations by direct manipulation (through the mouse, graphics tablet, or similar device)
of 2D computer graphics primitives. These editors generally provide geometric primitives as
well as digital images; and some even support procedural models. The illustration is usually
represented internally as a layered model, often with a hierarchical structure to make
editing more convenient. These editors generally output graphics files where the layers and
primitives are separately preserved in their original form. MacDraw, introduced in 1984
with the Macintosh line of computers, was an early example of this class; recent examples
are the commercial products Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW (http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/CorelDRAW), and the free editors such as
xfig
or
Inkscape
. There are also many 2D
graphics editors specialized for certain types of drawings such as electrical, electronic and
VLSI diagrams, topographic maps, computer fonts, etc.
5.3 VR simulation software
Simulation software brings the components of VR together. It is used to program how these
objects behave and set the rules that the virtual world follows. Some examples are
presented:
