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Pliable Display Technology (PDT) by IDELIX
PDT Features...
...Flexibility
Detail-in-Context — view and edit detail through the PDT lens without loss of contextual surroundings, eliminating redundant zooming and panning processes.
Dynamic capabilities — move and position PDT lens for more efficient search and navigation.
Visible MDLC lens controls — Modular Design Lens Controls enable intuitive in-place adjustment of lens placement, focal region and base size, magnification, and shoulder profile to optimize your view.
Multiple PDT lenses — compare separate regions of interest or view multiple images simultaneously.
Multi-layer viewing — choose data layer combinations and multi-scale data to appear in the PDT lens.
Customizable lenses — create various PDT lens shapes, sizes, and configurations.
Data format independent — works on raster, vector, text, video streams, and combinations of data in application areas including images, maps, graphs, hierarchy models, object models, text, and 3D worlds.
Platform independent — works on a variety of platforms, from PCs to workstations to PDAs.
...Extensibility
The PDT Software Development Kit (SDK) is available in C++ or Java — the PDT SDKs are data format independent, object oriented and easily extended. Current platforms supported include Java, Linux, IRIX, Windows, Windows CE , Mac OS X, and Solaris. Ports for other platforms available upon request.
Structured Application Programming Interface (API) — includes an extensive library of lenses, in-place editing capabilities, and innovative image-folding capabilities.
PDT Vector Painter System — includes specialized vector drawing classes for vector data.
PDT Image Warper Component — optimized software rendering for images available in both C++ and Java.
Hardware Accelerated Rendering — the C++ SDK offers both OpenGL and DirectX rendering solutions with additional classes for DirectX rendering.
COM and .NET Support — the PDTfi API enables programming against PDT using any language on the Windows platform that supports COM, including Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Delphi, and Perl for Windows. Managed extensions to C++ wrappers also extend the PDT functionality to any .NET application.
Java 2 Platform Standard Libraries — used to develop standard PDT features, increasing the portability and architectural neutrality of the PDT SDK and reducing deployment time of PDT-enabled Java stand-alone and web applications.
...Reversibility
Utilizing the Undisplace algorithm developed by IDELIX, the spatial transformation of the PDT lens is reversible; this enables extremely accurate conversion from any point appearing within the lens back to the original data coordinates. Host application tools can operate in conjunction with the PDT lenses, facilitating accurate and efficient "in-place" editing capabilities such as mark-up, annotation, and measurement.
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PDT Product Sheet [pdf]
