Open Inventor 8.1 Unveiled!

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Today VSG reveals some of the exciting new features and enhancements in the upcoming Open Inventor 8.1 release. Version 8.1 will be available soon :

Thanks to numerous optimizations, use of advanced OpenGL features and tuning memory consumption, Open Inventor 8.1 improves display rates in some specific cases, reaching graphics hardware peak performance in many cases.

VolumeViz 8.1 now provides progressive refinement of the display quality: Advanced rendering effects can be automatically reduced during interaction, then progressively re-applied, refining image quality on the fly, without sacrificing interactivity.
Watch the video here

VolumeViz 8.1 now provides Volume Masks, which allow the definition of generalized regions of voxels where data will be included or excluded. This is very powerful for applications dealing with advanced segmentation, filtering and volume clipping, such as geobody extraction or virtual core plugs for example.

VolumeViz 8.1 now provides real-time shadows with Volume Rendering.
Watch the video

ScaleViz 8.1, the high-performance extension of Open Inventor, now supports multi-pipe depth compositing, delivering high performance and scalability for multi-GPU configurations. Very large scenes and geometries, up to hundreds of millions of cells (for example large horizons, geobodies or reservoir models) can now be manipulated interactively on multi-GPU systems.

ScaleViz 8.1 has been specifically optimized for high performance on NVIDIA QuadroPlex® systems, using the NVIDIA CompleX™ engine.

MeshViz XLM 8.1, the Open Inventor extension for advanced mesh visualization and processing,
adds significant enhancements, such as more parallelized extraction algorithms, generally improved performance, more quadratic mesh support and a new indexless mesh support.




Even more new features and improvements have been added to the 8.1 release.
More info is coming, so stay tuned!... and there is still time to participate in the Beta Testing program - see thread here!