Objective Software components will be demonstrated in the context of an application demonstrator for the interactive design and engineering of car bodies for both aesthetic and physical design decisions. This demonstrator will be evaluated in collaboration with BMW AG, the industrial end-user involved in the project.Major results will be achieved in the course of the project: definition of a very general data exchange format for visualisation to unify all aspects of visualisation required to meet industrial and scientific needs development of a general purpose, high image quality rendering software for distributed memory parallel systems for animation and visualisation using a novel ray-tracing acceleration algorithm development of interfaces to allow for the integration of software developed outside the project for the simulation of external aerodynamics development of a prototype graphical interactive designer's front-end software including a novel constraint-based free form surface modelling system. The implementation aims at the widest possible portability of the software to both distributed memory parallel machines as well as to shared memory parallel machines and networks of workstations. The software is based on message passing, using a particular message passing interface defined in the project. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata exchangeengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaeronautical engineeringnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator MENTAL IMAGES GES FÜR COMPUTERFILM & MASCHINENINTELLIGENZ & CO EU contribution No data Address RANKESTRAßE 9 10789 BERLIN Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Bertin & Cie France EU contribution No data Address 59 rue Pierre Curie Zone Industrielle des Gatines 78373 Plaisir See on map Total cost No data Delcam International plc United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address 25 Talbot Way Small Health Business Park B10 0HJ Birmingham See on map Total cost No data Parsytec Anwendungen GmbH Germany EU contribution No data Address Roermonder Straße 197 52072 Aachen See on map Total cost No data Warwick Strategic Technologies United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Barclays Venture Centre Warwick Science Park CV4 7EZ Coventry See on map Total cost No data
