TerraMetrics, Inc. announced today that Quantum3D has licensed its TerraBlocks 3D terrain-rendering engine, TruEarth global imagery and terrain data to bring a new global 3D rendering capability to IData, Quantum’s Human Machine Interface toolkit.
The newest IData release includes the TerraMetrics terrain-rendering plug-in, the first DO-178B-certified widget library for avionics applications and ARINC 661 capabilities. IData is widely used by developers to create applications for unmanned vehicles, first responders, helicopters, in-flight entertainment, synthetic vision and other uses.
Developed to meet the rigorous performance requirements of the embedded flight environment, the TerraBlocks 3D terrain-rendering engine delivers accurate, deterministic rendering and uses a proprietary file compression format, which substantially reduces data size.
The rendering engine’s ability to support high-definition displays and high-resolution imagery insets, such as airport runway features, make it especially suitable for simulation and in-flight entertainment applications. The TerraBlocks 3D terrain-rendering engine runs on a lightweight CPU/GPU platform with Windows and Linux operating systems.
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