I'm shy. :-) I really wasn't trying to plug the product, but
attempting to relay my own hard-won wisdom about the effort
required in just cataloging and archiving 3D models.
It's a lot of work. People often balk at the price of Viewpoint's
models, for example, but they are the best in the industry
and worth every penny.
The avalon.chinalake.navy.mil site contains thumbnail image catalog
GIFs of all the models on our 3D-ROMs. Mark Owen has graciously created
a Web page for Syndesis at http://www.webmaster.com:80/syndesis/ but
this only describes our InterChange product. As for price, I
quote one of our special offers from the Tesselation Times, a
very cool 3D-oriented online newsletter produced by 3D Artist magazine.
You can get all three discs for $150, shipping included.
We made the Syndesis 3D-ROMs to show people what InterChange
can do. InterChange is our primary product here at Syndesis.
It translates between more than thirty 3D file formats, and
I'm watching this list because we now export to Inventor and VRML.
We take each model on the disc and translate it to DXF, 3DS, Wavefront,
LightWave and Imagine formats, so the disc is usable in almost any
3D package.
So we don't make the models ourselves. We use the CDs as promotional
items. For example, we have a standing offer to reward contributors
to the 3D-ROMs with a free copy of the disc. If you send us one or
more 3D models we can use on the next 3D-ROM, and we do choose
them, we send you a free disc. No shipping-and-handling charge, even. :-)
We also gladly promote the commercial modeling companies, giving them
as much space on the CD as they like, as long as we can translate
their models, too.
I look forward to producing a VRML version of our collections.
We shipped Volume I in 1993, Volume II in 1994, and Volume III will
appear at Siggraph '95 in our booth, along with a new pressing of the
Avalon disc.
- John Foust
- Syndesis Corporation
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THE T E S S E L L A T I O N T I M E S #513
Issue #13 of 1995, for Monday, May 22nd
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513.00.02 - Special Offers
Syndesis Corp. is offering a three-pack CD ROM bundle of 2,000+ models
contained in the Syndesis 3D-ROM volumes I and II, and its Avalon CD.
Through 6/30/95 for $150 you can get all three CDs shipped anywhere in the
world.
Syndesis Corp.; 235 S. Main St., Jefferson, WI 53549; (414) 674-5200,
-6363 fax; [email protected], http://www.webmaster.com:80/syndesis/
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