usenet@mcdchg.UUCP (02/10/87)
Via Visuals is pleased to announce a new addition to its line of workstations
for the graphic artist, the Artist Design Station. The Artist Design Station
and The Design Center are advanced color composition systems for your visual
communication needs. Both workstations combine full-color digital photography,
artist-oriented tools for painting and design, and typographic-quality text.
Both the Artist Design Station and The Design Center are currently being used
in the following applications:
- Presentation Graphics
- Retail Shelf Space Management (Planograms)
- Package Design
- Illustration and Design for Print
The Artist Design Station features a fully object-oriented paint system,
including the capability to create and save global symbol libraries. The
object-orientation allows the Artist Design Station to redraw paintings at
higher resolution when outputting to the film recorder, thus offering true
2048 pixel/line resolution.
Features of the Artist Design Station and The Design Center include:
- Bitstream fonts
- Full color (24 bits = 16,777,216 colors, plus alpha)
- Full color scanning via JVC 1100 or 2100 video cameras, flash digitizing
in 0.1 seconds
- Link to ISSCO business graphics software on mainframe computers via metafile
translator
- Charting packages for remote chart design on IBM PCs, ability to directly
incorporate data from spreadsheets via DIF files
- Link to industry standard shelf space allocation systems for Planograms
- NTSC compatible video output, encoder optional
- Real-Time filtering and resizing of digitized images
Also available now for the Design Center and Artist Design Station is Image
Lab Release 1.0, a pixel-oriented tool for retouching digitized images before
incorporation into paintings. It features filtering operations, bytemap
brushes, clone brushes, and many other pixel-oriented tools for the artist.
For more information and sample slides, or to arrange for a demonstration,
contact:
Barry Dearborne
Via Visuals Inc.
3100 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
(408) 980 - 8009
Information is also available via email to {lll-lcc|cae780}leadsv!eps2!jon.
Additional offices are located in Los Angeles and New York. Via Visuals Inc.
is a wholly owned subsidiary of the DuPont Company.