09-07-2013, 04:35 PM
CASE STUDY OF ANY GRAPHICS TOOL
AIM:
To understand the available commercial graphics tools in market.
OBJECTIVE:
To study at least 5 graphics tools and implement it in laboratory.
THEORY:
Write in details case study about the below given graphics tools
• Autodesk 3ds Max.
Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio MAX, is a modeling, animation and rendering package developed by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It has modeling capabilities, a flexible plug-in architecture and is able to be used on the Microsoft Windows platform. It's frequently used by video game developers, TV commercial studios and architectural visualization studios. It is also used for movie effects and movie pre-visualization. In addition to its modeling and animation tools, the latest version of 3ds Max also features shaders (such as ambient occlusion and subsurface scattering), dynamic simulation, particle systems, radiosity, normal map creation and rendering, global illumination, a customizable user interface, and its own scripting language.
• MAYA
Autodesk Maya is a 3D computer graphics software for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, created by Alias Systems Corporation and currently developed by Autodesk, Inc. The product is named after the Sanskrit word Maya, the Hindu concept of illusion. In Maya, users define a virtual workspace, known as a scene to implement and edit media of a particular project, optionally defined in a file directory. Scenes can be saved in a variety of binary formats, the default being .mb. As the architecture of scene elements in Maya are node-based, each contributing asset contains its own distinct level of attributes and customization. As a result, the visual representation of a scene is based entirely on a network of interconnecting nodes, dependent on each others information. For the convenience of viewing these networks, Maya comes built with a dependency and a directed acyclic graph.
• Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated. The .PSD (Photoshop Document), Photoshop's native format, stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings. This is in contrast to many other file formats (e.g. .EPS or .GIF) that restrict content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality.
Photoshop's popularity means that the .PSD format is widely used, and it is supported to some extent by most competing software. The .PSD file format can be exported to and from Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, and the Web. Photoshop is a pixel-based image editor, unlike programs such as Macromedia FreeHand (now defunct), Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape or CorelDraw, which are vector-based image editors.
Photoshop uses color models RGB, lab, CMYK, grayscale, binary bitmap, and duotone. Photoshop has the ability to read and write raster and vector image formats such as .EPS, .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, and Adobe Fireworks.
• MATLAB
MATLAB (for matrix laboratory) is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, and Fortran. Although MATLAB is intended primarily for numerical computing, an optional toolbox uses the MuPAD symbolic engine, allowing access to symbolic computing capabilities. An additional package, Simulink, adds graphical multi-domain simulation and Model-Based Design for dynamic and embedded systems. In 2004, MATLAB had around one million users across industry and academia.[2] MATLAB users come from various backgrounds of engineering, science, and economics. MATLAB is widely used in academic and research institutions as well as industrial enterprises.