Strata Live 3D Capabilities

• Reads VRML and K3D format files
• Automatically extracts geometry, appearance, and animation
• Edit hierarchy and object names
• Copy/Paste sections of the hierarchy
• Copy/Paste parts between different models
• Scale, rotate, and move mesh data
• Adjust positions, orientation, and pivot points of objects
• Insert flexible wires, cables, straps and sheets, using dynamic Elliptical Hermite Lofts
• Adjust scene lighting and orientation
• Create new range-of-motion animations
• Create material swaps (for texture or color changes)
• Create color curve animations
• Create object and material fade animations
• Edit material properties: color, texture, lighting
• Edit mesh smoothing groups
• Set up initial object position, zoom and rotate limits, etc.
• Graphically create animation scripts moving multiple parts, camera view, scene orientation, and lighting
• Easily specify conditional relationships between scripts, to create robust simulations
• Automatically select texture and geometry compression parameters
• Preview web compression and streaming prior to export
• Handles models with hundreds of megabytes of texture
• Handles models with millions of polygons
• Optimizer automatically reduces polygon count, under user control
• Optimizer automatically eliminates unneeded hierarchy
• Easily edit underlying XML representation of Master Model
• Create and Edit meta-data associated with the model
• Export animated models to plug-in-free Web 3D
• Export animated models to plug-in-free 3D PDF
• Available for both Windows & Mac

3D PDF Capabilities

• 3D PDF requires no special plug-ins: works in Adobe Reader 7 or later
• Generate 3D PDF directly from Strata Live 3D, no Acrobat required
• Edit generated 3D PDFs using Illustrator or Acrobat
• Insert animated 3D models in any PDF using Acrobat Pro 
• Automatically includes all animation behavior: no Javascripting required
• Automatically includes Strata Live 3D's easy-to-use interactive Toolbar
• Automatically includes unique "Measure" feature
• Automatically compresses all textures to ensure best performance on all hardware
• Uses Strata Live 3D optimization to produce far smaller PDF files (typically 50-70% smaller than other tools)
• Most robust U3D compressor in the industry -- easily handles models that crash other tools
• Only solution that supports enhanced, dynamic lighting models not found in U3D
• Only solution that supports real-time texture and color swaps
• Available for both Windows & Mac

Web Capabilities

• Strata Live 3D Web viewer requires no special plug-ins: relies on Java 1.1 (circa 1997) or later
• Strata Live 3D Web "Just works" on more than 90% of computers (Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc...)
• Strata Live 3D Web is the dominant 3D viewer used by major product companies
• Uses sophisticated Meson Platform for rich 2D interfaces and dynamic 3D scenes
• Comprehensive optimization produces the smallest files in the industry
• All HTML generated completely automatically
• Web viewer 2D capabilities:
  • Alpha channel compositing of an arbitrary numbers of layers
  • Smooth animation of any attribute (such as alpha, or position)
  • Hot areas, including pickable pixels, and rectangular areas
  • Mouse cursor control
  • Context (right click) menu
  • Unicode support for multi-lingual applications
  • Anti-aliasing text engine with CSS-like font control, drop shadow generation, and internationalized word-wrapping capability
  • Multi-state images and text (for mouse-over or push-button effects, for example)
  • Separate images for color/alpha information (for example, to use a JPEG image for color, and a grayscale GIF for the alpha channel)
  • Image tiling (primarily for repeating backgrounds)
  • Rotation, scale, skew, bilinear-filtering, and oversampling of any 2D element, including rendered text or even the rendered 3D scene
  • Wavelet-streaming encoded images
• Web viewer 3D capabilities:
  • Dedkov compression produces the smallest 3D models across the largest range of model types (from photo-real high-texture models, to untextured scanned models)
  • JPEG, GIF, and Wavelet-streaming textures
  • Dynamic textures can be generated by a Meson program: 
    • To embed 3D scenes onto texture in 3D scenes (for example, to show a moving scene on a camcorder model's view screen)
    • To use rendered text in the 3D scene (for example, to simulate the menu system of a mobile phone)
  • Real-time, dynamically generated shadows
  • Perspective-correct bi-linear filtered textures of unlimited dimensions
  • Mip-map style continuous texture anti-aliasing 
  • 32-bit ARGB, 16- and 12-bit YCrCb, and 8-bit Y (constant CrCb) texture pixel formats, with optional error-diffusion dither
  • Photoshop-compatible color curves applied to texture images in real time
  • Real-time edge anti-aliasing
  • Stable-scene 256x oversample progressive anti-aliasing
  • Perspective-correct Phong shader with no performance penalty
  •  Specular highlights and chrome shading model (to convey shininess without the need for cumbersome reflection maps)
  • Dynamically-generated flexible objects (elliptical hermite lofts), for modeling wires, ribbon cables, straps, paper, etc.
  • Illustration rendering mode automatically turns 3D models into "sketches." Support for both line drawing over realistic shading, and line drawing over flat color.

• Reuse the animated master model in 3D PDF, and on the Web.