Why You Should Join the Thousands of Design Professionals Using RPC® Technology

Traditional visual mediums are burdened with non-existent or expensive, time-consuming alternatives for manipulating 3D image-object information. The RPC advantage boils down to speed, image quality and ease of use. RPC allows design professionals to quickly add detailed objects to their virtual environments without sacrificing render times or requiring the user to learn complicated software.

RPC Defined

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RPC stands for Rich Photorealistic Content, a term used to describe the software and content associated with ArchVision's award-winning Image-Based Rendering (IBR) technology. (RPC is also the file extension for this image-based content.) RPC is the first major commercial project in the evolution of image-based rendering technology. Since its introduction in 1998, the company's solutions have become the preferred method of incorporating complex objects into 3D computer graphics environments. Because RPCs rely on photo image data, the incredible richness of detail and quality of images far surpasses even the best computer-generated models.

RPC Users

ArchVision has developed a number of libraries of photorealistic content that can be incorporated into 3D models, including diverse collections of trees, people, cars and other objects. These libraries are being utilized in a variety of fields and applications, including architecture (commercial and landscape), general design visualization, city planning, construction, product design, simulation and manufacturing. Visualization professionals in more than 100 countries around the world access ArchVision's libraries of content via the company's website www.archvision.com.

The Visualization Software Industry Supports RPC

Thousands of designers around the world use RPC because it provides a way to represent complex objects in computer visualization projects without relying on polygonal geometry. As a result, RPC delivers faster rendering times and better image quality over traditional geometry-based solutions. The use of continuously updated and synthesized image data creates a stunningly effective 3D illusion, freeing you to realize your vision to its fullest by placing as many people, trees, shrubs, or other RPC objects into scenes as needed to bring them to life. For these and other reasons, leading visualization vendors like Autodesk, Bentley Systems International, Inc., Maxon, Robert McNeel and Associates, LightWorks and SGI have all adopted RPC technology as their preferred image-object solution.

How It Works

RPC technology uses high quality image data combined with minimal polygonal geometry to create the illusion of 3D. By synthesizing image data as the camera moves through the scene, images effectively reproduce the appearance of a 3-Dimensional object without relying on complex polygonal geometry. A remarkably simple user interface makes the placement of RPC content a simple click-to-place operation. An icon is first used to orient RPC content within the geometry of your scene, and at render time, the RPC plug-in calculates the viewing angle of the RPC object relative to the virtual camera. The appropriate corresponding images are then synthesized, creating the illusion that a complete 3D object exists in the scene.

Why ArchVision?

With more than 95 collections of automobiles, people, trees, fountains, furniture and other objects, ArchVision is the leading image-based content supplier in the industry. Extensive ready-to-use RPC libraries allow users to select just the right content for a scene. The newest libraries incorporate natural motion cycles that make it easy to add walking people and even flowing fountains into designs, all with just a few quick clicks of your mouse.

Don't let visualization work be limited to tough-to-render, unrealistic, heavy resource-laden polygonal models. Bring something new to the next project. ArchVision's Image-Based Rendering approach delivers true photo-realism and detail, without sacrificing rendering performance.

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