Wavefront Technologies was a computer graphics company that developed and sold animation software used in Hollywood motion pictures and other industries...
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(or .OBJ) is a geometry definition file format first developed by Wavefront Technologies for The Advanced Visualizer animation package. It is an open file...
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Alias Systems Corporation (redirect from Alias wavefront)
Alias Systems Corporation (formerly Alias Research, Alias|Wavefront), headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was a software company that produced...
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Wavefront Technology Solutions Inc. is a provider of secondary oil recovery and environmental technologies. The company was founded in 1997 as PE-TECH...
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(TAV), a 3D graphics software package, was the flagship product of Wavefront Technologies from the mid 1980s until the late 1990s. The Advanced Visualizer...
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Silicon Graphics Inc. had acquired both Alias and Wavefront Technologies, Inc. in 1995, Wavefront's technology (then under development) was merged into Maya...
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In physics, the wavefront of a time-varying wave field is the set (locus) of all points having the same phase. The term is generally meaningful only for...
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LASIK (section Wavefront-guided)
that outweighs any benefit from wavefront correction. When treating a patient with preexisting astigmatism, most wavefront-guided LASIK lasers are designed...
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increasing the depth of field in an image to produce sharper images Wavefront Technologies, a computer graphics company that developed and sold animation software...
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the film while working for Robert Abel before going on to found Wavefront Technologies. The work was not a collaboration, resulting in very different styles...
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companies for computer graphics, Sumisho Electronic Systems, Inc. and Wavefront Technologies), primarily to animate the pattern indicator used by Doctor Ōnishi...
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In optics and signal processing, wavefront coding refers to the use of a phase modulating element in conjunction with deconvolution to extend the depth...
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Silicon Graphics (category Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area)
Kroyer Films, and Wavefront Technologies in a deal totaling approximately $500 million and merged the companies into Alias|Wavefront. In June 2004 SGI...
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"in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in diffractive wavefront technologies, especially those which further the development of holography and...
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dxf, .dwg Drawing Exchange Format Autodesk AutoCAD .obj Wavefront OBJ Wavefront Technologies Various ASCII format describing 3D geometry. All faces' vertices...
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on to other ground-breaking projects, including the founding of Wavefront Technologies, Rhythm & Hues and other studios. Many RA&A people went on to win...
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this software, with others in the film Tron. He later co-founded Wavefront Technologies as CTO (1984-1994), leading the development of products such as...
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aberrations. Adaptive optics works by measuring the distortions in a wavefront and compensating for them with a device that corrects those errors such...
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The software was licensed to Wavefront Technologies in 1992, and passed through to the merged company Alias/Wavefront. It was introduced as a product...
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cornea. The astigmatic meridian can also be identified using corneal wavefront technology or paraxial curvature matching.[citation needed] Severe myopia or...
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Holography (section Plane wavefronts)
Holography is a technique that enables a wavefront to be recorded and later reconstructed. It is best known as a method of generating three-dimensional...
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Robert Abel and Associates Digital Productions Silicon Graphics Wavefront Technologies Alias Research Symbolics Graphics Division Apple Macintosh Softimage...
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and merged Wavefront Technologies, another 3D software graphics company founded in 1984 at Santa Barbara, California, to form Alias/Wavefront which was...
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compression format. OBJ - A 3D model/scene format developed by Wavefront Technologies. DAE - A 3D model/scene format standardized by Khronos. glTF - A...
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iges - Initial Graphics Exchange Specification .obj - developed by Wavefront Technologies .off - Object File Format .ply - Polygon File Format .rad - Radiance...
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effects at Robert Abel and Associates, and director of production at Wavefront Technologies (which later merged to form Alias). He then formed his own special...
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(Wavefront Technologies) was a high-end 3D package between the late 1980s and mid-1990s, running on Silicon Graphics (SGI) workstations. Wavefront first...
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Video Game Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (1994) (original animation) Wavefront Technologies Silicon Graphics Robert Abel & Associates Digital Productions Softimage...
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when the pupil is large. A wavefront is a surface over which an optical disturbance has a constant phase. Rays and wavefronts are two mutually complementary...
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real-time IG systems. Most early graphics file formats, such as Wavefront Technologies, or Alias Systems Corporation[citation needed], tried to focus more...
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