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Access Online Geospatial Data with PDT!

"The capability that IDELIX's PDT offers would significantly enhance our ability to perform multi-sensor exploitation."

Explore how PDT can aid in multi-sensor exploitation with our interactive PDT Layers Demo or check out a Video demonstration.

Version 3.0 of the Pliable Display Technology Software Development Kit is scheduled for release at the beginning of July 2003. Version 3.0 features new components for Direct X, COM, .NET, and a new vector painting system. These new features in v3.0 simplify the PDT integration process and make the SDK accessible to an even broader range of programmers.

Are you interested in exploring PDT functionality within your application? IDELIX is seeking Beta Testers for the PDT SDK 3.0. Send us an email if you would like to participate in the IDELIX Beta Program.

Interested in integrating Version 3.0 of the PDT or PDT 3d SDK? Apply to the IDELIX Partner Program to receive an evaluation SDK. Have questions about our technology? Check out our FAQ's or Whitepapers and Technical Descriptions.

Want a sneak peak at the Technical Description for the new SDK? Email us for a preview.

View multi-layered online maps and images more intuitively with PDT! Experience how PDT coupled with existing application tools can increase efficiency when performing a variety of tasks such as measurement.

New from IDELIX—the PDT Web Map Client Demo is now available for download. Developed in conjunction with GeoConnections, this OGC-compliant client demonstrates how the advantages of PDT's "detail-in-context" visualization can be applied to data retrieved from a variety of online servers.

Featuring examples of Image Exploitation and Mark Up... Couple PDT with existing tools in your application!!

PDT is not only a very effective tool for detail-in-context viewing, but it can also increase the effectiveness of your existing application tools. The Measure functionality in the new PDT Web Map Client demonstrates how PDT support of host application tools can improve the accuracy and efficiency of tasks such as distance measurement.

On a large map or image, it is difficult if not impossible to precisely select your start and end points for your measurement without using repetitive zoom and pan. Now consider the efficiency and accuracy benefits of using your Measure distance tool in combination with the real-time, detail-in-context viewing capabilities of PDT. In the new PDT Web Map Client Demo, the center of the PDT lens can follow, or be attached to, the Measure distance tool cursor. As the cursor is moved to the area of interest, the PDT lens provides a detailed view for precise point selection without the need for zooming in and out. The distance of each line segment is displayed at the midpoint of the line. When more than one line segment is created, the total distance for the combined segments is shown in the status bar.

Imagine the efficiency and accuracy benefits that can be attained through PDT support of other application tools such as mark-up, red lining, cropping, selecting, and pasting. In all of these cases, the PDT lens is used to magnify (up to pixel level accuracy) the start and end points of the image to be cropped, selected, or pasted.

A screenshot of the Measure Tool working with a PDT lens in the PDT Web Map Client.

In essence, the new PDT painter is meant to simplify the drawing of vector shapes in the presence of lenses. By rerouting vector drawing code through the PDT painter, vector shapes are automatically converted into an appropriate sequence of lines approximating their shape and then displaced by the PDT transform and other transforms that may be present. This dramatically reduces the amount of work an integrator has to do to displace individual vector shapes in a PDT lens. Previous versions of the PDT SDK required integrators to manually displace lines through the IDELIX displaceLine function resulting in a new sequence of lines that the application then had to render in place of the original line. The new version of the PDT painter system handles the rendering of the line very simply and directly with one function call.

Check out the PDT Integration Overview for more information on integrating PDT functionality into your application. Email us if you would like to receive a preview of the PDT SDK 3.0 Technical Description.

PDT is a valuable tool for the analysis of detailed seismic imagery such as the seismic scan shown above.

In an industry where only 30% of the oil in a reservoir can be extracted, improvements in visualization techniques within seismic imaging and imagery interpretation can help analysts find oil traps that would otherwise be missed using existing tools, and lead to substantial competitive gains. One such visualization improvement is Pliable Display Technology.

Typical seismic data, having both large coverage areas and high information density, present viewing challenges to geologists and other analysts. Viewers lose valuable time and can quickly get lost in the process of zooming in on a potential oil trap and then, zooming out to regain a previous view due to the break in visual continuity. Attention is often diverted from the task at hand and contextual connections are left to be resolved cognitively instead of being seen on the display screen.

PDT's detail-in-context viewing and data manipulation functionality can improve efficiency and reduce errors in tasks and decisions such as:

• Where to drill a well
• The routing of a pipeline
• Building refineries and reservoir extraction
• Analyzing high density, complex and dynamic data such as Seismic Data

Interested in learning more about PDT and how this technology applies within a variety of industries? Scroll through our Industry Solutions section located on the IDELIX Web site!

July 7-11, 2003
ESRI International User Conference
San Diego, California

Join Dr. Baar as he presents a case study on the integration of PDT into ArcObjects, and discusses some of the challenges that IDELIX faced. For full presentation details, read the Abstract.

July 13-18, 2003
SVG Open 2003
Vancouver, BC

IDELIX Director of Research, Dr. Maria Lantin will be attending the 2nd Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics.

July 27-31, 2003
SIGGRAPH 2003
San Diego, CA

IDELIX Director of Research, Dr. Maria Lantin will be at the world's largest marketplace of computer graphics and interactive techniques.
 

For the full list of events, visit our website Events page.

Would you like to meet us? Find out more about PDT? Find out more about these events? Email Tiffany Chester, Communications Coordinator, to set up an appointment for any of these events.