October 1, 2002—Pliable Display Technology SDK 2.1 beta & PDT 3d SDK beta released! [more]

Demos, demos, demos—new PDT Demos for Mac, and a new chance to find Barley in a pumpkin patch with our Halloween "Where’s Barley?" Demo. [more]

Interested in integrating PDT or PDT 3d within your leading application? Contact the IDELIX Partner Program to apply for a 90 Day PDT SDK Evaluation Copy.

"We expect that the enhanced functionality available in our PDT 3d SDK will extend the productivity gains and cost savings shown in our 2D product to the customers of our 3D integrators."

Look for upcoming articles on IDELIX in the following publications:

• Len Hindus explores IDELIX’s PDT as an imaging solution in the October issue of Advanced Imaging Magazine.
• Read about the integration of IDELIX’s PDT into Boeing Autometric’s KDSP 1.2 and Softplotter 4.0 in the November issue of Earth Observation Magazine.
• Professor Petrie explores the PDT geometric transform in the December issue of GeoInformatics Magazine.

Interested in learning more about Boeing Autometric's photogrammetry applications that have integrated IDELIX's Pliable Display Technology? Check out the July/August 2002 issue of GeoInformatics Magazine.

Check out the prototype for PDT 3d or our PDT demos. We value your feedback.

Without PDT 3d some of the bones in this 3D model of the human foot are occluded or hidden from view.		The PDT 3d occlusion reduction transformation moves the occluding bones aside to reveal the second cuneiforms bone.

For more information on PDT, visit our Technical Descriptions, White Papers, or Integration Overview.

• OEM’s
• Systems Integrators

90 Day Evaluation PDT SDK or PDT 3d SDK:

• Fully functional version of the PDT or PDT 3d SDK
• Tutorials and documentation for various platform development
• IDELIX 90 DAY Evaluation License Agreement to be signed and returned to IDELIX (To apply for a license agreement, contact partners@idelix.com.)

Use of the Pliable Display Technology Software Development Kits requires a basic understanding of C and C++ and a familiarity with object-oriented design. The SDK includes a set of libraries compiled for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, WinCE, and IRIX. The structured API includes an extensive library of lenses, in-place editing capabilities, and revolutionary image-folding capabilities.

If you are interested in joining the IDELIX Beta Program and beta testing the PDT SDK 2.1 beta or PDT 3d SDK beta, email us at beta@idelix.com.

For detailed information about Pliable Display Technology (PDT) visit the White Papers, Technical Descriptions, or Integration Overview found at www.idelix.com.

Where is that darn dog? IDELIX's CTW (Chief Tail Wagger), Barley, has gone to sniff out a jack-o-lantern for the office. Can you help us determine "Where's Barley" using PDT?

Coming Soon... New PDT 3d Demos

Unique to the PDT SDK is an algorithm that IDELIX calls "Undisplace" (patents-pending). Undisplace enables editing and measurement within the focal and shoulder regions of a PDT lens. With Undisplace, you have the ability to accurately map points within the PDT lens back to their corresponding locations in the original data coordinates. This feature could enable integration of other host-application functionality in addition to editing and distance measurement such as annotation and interactive metadata to occur within the PDT lens.

For single, multiple and blended lenses, there are functions for point undisplacement. The undisplace functions use a progressive refinement algorithm to find the solution point. The desired accuracy and the maximum number of iterations are set with parameters to the functions.

With Undisplace, the spatial transformation of the PDT lens is completely reversible. For instance, given a 2D mouse location, it is easy to determine the corresponding location in the untransformed space by simply applying PDT in reverse to the mouse location and mapping the result to the data. Another way to say this is that you can go from data to PDT display, and from PDT display to data.

The "Undisplace" feature is key to improving production processes and efficiency within the workflow, as experienced by Boeing Autometric Inc. customer, Atlantic Air Survey Ltd, who is currently using the IDELIX stereo PDT lensing capability. In-place host-application functionality and elimination of the zoom and pan processes is an important part of improving the efficiency processes for graphic designers, digital imaging professionals, mapping & GIS, photogrammetry technicians, CAD/CAM operators, and the list goes on... PDT increases productivity for anyone working in fine detail within a digital environment.

Test the accuracy and convenience of "Undisplace" for yourself with IDELIX’s PDT Editing Demo.

We often get the question "which graphic file format do you support?" The short answer is that we are independent of graphic file formats. The slightly longer answer is that the PDT SDK acts on image data after it's been read in so it does not supply any image reading functionality. There are a couple reasons for this. We wanted to keep the SDK very specific to its function: displacing data. This means concentrating our development efforts where our expertise lies. Also, PDT technology is usually integrated into existing products. The Boeing Autometric case study is a good example of this. In the case of an existing product, specialized image-reading functionality is either provided as part of the application or by another external library. PDT then becomes a specialized component separate from the data retrieval mechanisms of the application.

One little known part of the SDK is the anmDataSource class hierarchy. The anmDataSource classes are designed to fetch image data at a specific resolution from a specific location in an image. They are used for example in the OpenGL classes to automatically pull image data in response to a lens location change, or a lens configuration change. It is possible and desirable in many circumstances to subclass the anmDataSource class to use the pre-existing image access functions of an application. This is an easy way to take advantage of both the automatic data fetching capability of the PDT SDK, and the existing image access functions of an application.

Stand up and speak loud... we want to hear what you have to say!

On the box this month is PDT and PDT 3d for CAD/CAM applications. In an industry characterized by complex drawings, 3D modeling, time-to-market, and collaboration issues, we'd like to hear your thoughts on PDT for CAD/CAM applications. Is it a hit or a miss? You make the call.

In this section, we want to see how pliable your brain is. Think outside the box and consider how PDT applies to a variety of markets.

This month we turn the spotlight on the CAD/CAM market and the strategic advantages of PDT and PDT 3d for CAD Applications.

October 2nd & 3rd
ESRI Regional User Conference
Vancouver, The Westin Bayshore
IDELIX Manager of Business Development, Ali Solehdin will represent IDELIX at this event.

October 6th
Run For The Cure - BC Cancer Society
Vancouver
IDELIX team members will be participating on Team Sarah at this year's event in support of the fundraising efforts of 23-year-old triathlete, Sarah Ray who has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

October 16th
Autodesk GIS Exposition 2002
Vancouver
IDELIX Product Manager, Ruby Mawira and Manager of Business Development, Ali Solehdin will represent IDELIX at this event.

November 18 & 19th
Vanguard Conference
San Diego
IDELIX Founder and CTO, Dr. David Baar will be speaking at this year's event.

Would you like to meet us? Find out more about PDT? Find out more about these events? Email tchester@idelix.com to set up an appointment at any of these events.