Paris (France), January 5th, 2000 -- mental images GmbH & Co. KG and Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq:DASTY) announced the renewal of their Original Software Development agreement (OSD). Under this agreement, mental images' mental ray® rendering technologies will continue to be embedded into Dassault Systemes Solutions.
After six years of a very successful and close development partnership, Dassault Systèmes and mental images decided to continue and extend their unique and strategic relationship in order to integrate the most advanced rendering technologies into CATIA Version 5 and other Dassault Systemes Solutions.
mental ray is a high-performance, photo-realistic rendering software that produces images of unsurpassed quality and realism. It is widely acknowledged to be the industry leading rendering solution in the Digital Content Creation and CAD/CAM markets. mental ray is the first and only commercially available rendering software which combines the physically correct simulation of the behaviour of light with full programmability for the creation of any imaginable visual phenomenon. Furthermore, mental ray is the only fully scalable parallel rendering software supporting both multiprocessors platforms and networks of machines.
Dassault Systemes is committed to support its customers throughout their entire industrial processes and to provide them with best-in-class scalable technologies. Integrating mental ray’s state of the art capabilities into CATIA Version 5 applications offers the user a unique and powerful solution to exactly simulate their products in any physical configuration and environment. Products visualization can be done and shared through all stages of their development, ranging from conceptual design and styling to engineering, maintenance, documentation and marketing, thereby shortening development time cycles and reducing costs.
"We are extremely pleased with the new agreement and look forward to continuing our excellent long-term partnership with Dassault Systemes" said Rolf Herken, President and Director R&D, mental images. "The combination of mental ray with Dassault Systemes CATIA Version 5 will provide the answer to the markets' growing demand for higher image quality and physical correctness of visual and optical simulation in the context of digital mockup applications at all stages of product development, marketing and sales in a wide range of industries."
"We are delighted to continue and strengthen our Development Partnership with mental images for CATIA Version 5" said Dominique Florack, Executive Vice-President R&D, Dassault Systemes. "This partnership enables us to provide our customers, regardless their industry or company size, with unsurpassed and worldclass realistic visual simulation applications."
Dassault Systèmes S.A. is the premier global software developer for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM II market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service.
CATIA, ENOVIA and DENEB solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value : CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DENEB provides solutions to define and simulate digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life Pipeline, supporting re-use of corporate knowledge.
SolidWorks and SmartSolutions, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and TeamPDM software solutions based on Windows.
mental images GmbH & Co. KG, founded in 1986, is a recognized leader in providing rendering and surface approximation technology to the entertainment, CAD, scientific visualization, architecture and other industries where sophisticated images are required. mental images is a privately held company based in Berlin, Germany. The main product of mental images is the high performance, photorealistic rendering software mental ray, which is capable of running on a wide variety of platforms, ranging from workstations and networks of workstations to parallel supercomputers. Customers of mental images include original software developers as well as major industrial end-users. Users of mental ray include most of the leading special effects and digital film studios, game developing companies, and companies in the automotive and aerospace industries.
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