IDELIX Releases Version 2.0 of the Pliable Display Technology Software Development Kit; SDK V2.0 Now Featuring Increased PDT Functionality and Broader Platform Support

Business Wire, May 22, 2002

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002

IDELIX Software Inc. IDELIX (TM) Software Inc. today released Version 2.0 of the Pliable Display Technology (PDT) Software Development Kit featuring advanced PDT functionality including the "MDLC" in-place user interface and additional support for platforms without accelerated graphics hardware.

Pliable Display Technology (PDT) is increasing productivity across many markets by transforming the way high-density data sets and images are displayed on PC's, the Internet and handheld/wireless applications. With PDT, the cognitive overhead associated with the tasks of zooming in for detail and zooming out again to regain a view of the entire image context are greatly reduced. Efficiency gains are realized through detail-in-context viewing and editing.

"Using the Pliable Display Technology SDK we were able to quickly integrate Pliable Display Technology into our SoftPlotter (R) and KDSP(TM) products," says Todd Ham, Product Business Manager, Spatial Knowledge Systems at Boeing Autometric. "The SDK provides consistent, clean data structures and interfaces that are professionally documented and backed by an outstanding technical support staff. This allowed our staff to rapidly access the elements of the SDK we required and provide the PDT-enabled versions of our applications to the market."

"The IDELIX team has done an outstanding job of gathering feedback from our partners and incorporating this directly into Version 2.0," says Dr. David Baar, CTO of IDELIX. "The level of integration success that companies such as Boeing Autometric are experiencing is a direct result of detailed documentation, a structured API, and a superior level of support from our team at IDELIX. The result is extremely efficient implementation of PDT within our partners' leading applications."

Some of the enhancements to Version 2.0 of the Pliable Display Technology SDK include:

-- A structured API that builds on the basic lens and mesh capabilities of SDK
V1.0 and is data format independent, object oriented and multi-platform. It can
be applied to raster, vector, and text data in a variety of application areas
including images, maps, graphs, hierarchy models, object models, 3D worlds, and
text.

-- The new "MDLC" in-place user interface for direct control of lens
parameters.

-- Additional classes supplied for OpenGL rendering to facilitate texture
mapping capabilities on an adaptive PDT mesh that accurately describes PDT
lenses.

-- A complete rendering toolkit in the image warper component of the SDK for
non-OpenGL, raster-viewing applications that results in faster performance
without a requirement for hardware-accelerated graphics.

-- Improved in-place editing capabilities with the addition of the reversible
undisplace transformation to the mesh class which compensates for the
approximations that are imposed by a mesh and provides accuracy for undisplace
in the shoulder of the lens.

-- New Qt-specific classes that simplify the use of OpenGL in Qt-based
applications for easier integration.

-- Support for handheld applications under both WinCE and embedded Linux As a
PDT lens moves across the display screen, it functions as a spatial
distribution engine that results in the visual impression of space being
stretched locally on a "pliable" or elastic display surface. Space is created
around an area of interest, with desired levels of magnification, detail, or
annotation appearing within the focal region of the lens. The lens shoulder
provides continuous visual connection to the base image, resulting in no
information being occluded from view.

PDT supports operating systems including Microsoft (R) Windows and Unix (TM) variants such as IRIX (TM) and Linux (TM). The PDT Software Development Kit was written in ANSI C to ensure that PDT is compatible with a wide range of C compilers.

The PDT Software Development Kit is available to OEM's and System Integrators that are interested in implementing PDT as a customer solution within their leading applications. Current market opportunities for PDT include: Defense, Handheld and Wireless Devices, Digital Imaging, Geographic Information Systems & Remote Sensing, Seismic, Electronic Media, Computer Aided Design, Medical Imaging, and Electronic Games. For more information on how to become an IDELIX partner, visit: http://www.idelix.com/partners.shtml.> About IDELIX

IDELIX Software Inc., www.idelix.com, is a Vancouver-based software company focused on improving the presentation of data and images on computing devices through innovations in Information Visualization and Computer Graphics. In March, IDELIX announced a partnership with Boeing Autometric to integrate Pliable Display Technology into future versions of Autometric's data production and mapping products. On July 23-25th, IDELIX will be showcasing Pliable Display Technology at SIGGRAPH in San Antonio, Texas - Booth 16091.

IDELIX, the IDELIX Logo and Pliable Display Technology (PDT), are trademarks of IDELIX Software Inc. KDSP and SoftPlotter are trademarks or registered trademarks of Boeing Autometric. Microsoft Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. UNIX is a trademark or registered trademark of AT&T. LINUX is a trademark or registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. IRIX is a trademark or registered trademark of SGI.