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New Artlantis & Bionatics CD

Tuesday, 06 May 2008

Paris, France, May 6, 2008 - The Abvent Group, editor of Artlantis software, announced today its partnership with Bionatics and the release of the CD Bionatics Pines & Conifers.

In the begining of this century, sustainable developement is always more considered and plants have an impact on every urban project. Architects, city planners, landscapers need to simulate plants in the most accurate way to present their projects. To assume the highest quality and larger offer in the world, Abvent chose to conclude a long term partnership with Bionatics in order to develop a new collection of trees and plants for Artlantis. These optimized 3D plants will take advantage of the unique features of Artlantis, managing 4 seasons for deciduous leaves plants and normal mapping technology for more realistic visualization. All the collection will be adapted to Artlantis File format in a CD collection. The Pines & Conifers (26 plants) cd will be first available. Then Mediterranean plants (about 25 plants) will follow, and more. “ The worldwide Bionatics plants collection is the more complete and the more realistic among the 3D industry market “, says Stephane Gourgout, Sales and Marketing manager of Bionatics, “ thanks to this partnership, Artlantis users will benefit from the high quality of Artlantis renders and from the botanic realism of Bionatics plants, to easily obtain excellent images and animations “.

Artlantis is the computer graphics software conceived for architecture, stand creation, interior design, urban planning or landscape design… Communicating directly with leading CAD Architecture software such as ArchiCAD®, VectorWorks®, SketchUp Pro®, AutoCAD®, Arc +®…), Artlantis Studio imports from the main CAD formats : DXF, DWG, 3DS... Artlantis Render, the ideal application to produce images with an astonishing realism, speed of calculation and within a short time, is dedicated to still image creation. With Artlantis Studio, you will also produce QuickTime VR panoramas and movies. http://www.artlantis.com/

Bionatics, world leader in procedural 3D plants modeling technology, delivers a complete suite of professional solutions for the needs of Architecture, Landscape, 3D Animation, Video Game and Virtual Reality. Bionatics develops advanced plant modeling solutions targeting 3D animation and special effects experts, architects, 3D real-time database and video game developers, landscape designers and territory management businesses. Whatever your domain, Bionatics streamlines production, eliminating the obstacles normall y encountered in the 3D virtual generation of plants and their placement in 3D scenes. http://www.bionatics.com/