
Avid Elastic Reality Software Software Products Included
This company was renamed Elastic Reality, Inc. Other software products included Image Independence (graphic file conversion and scaling), ASDG Abekas driver, Lightning F/X (for lightning effects (Later called Avid LFX)) and NSA (No Strings. Before 1994, ASDG had started on the Amiga, and produced an image processing application called Art Department Professional (ADPro), and in 1992 a precursor to Elastic Reality called MorphPlus. The product was rebranded Softimage Elastic Reality after Avid separately acquired Softimage in 1998.
Paul Miller and Ian Failes. ASDG became Elastic Reality Inc, which was then acquired by Avid. The main features were paint, compositing, image manipulation and special effects.It was originally created by ASDG (with an earlier incarnation of the tool called MorphPlus). It ran on Silicon Graphics workstations.
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On the other hand, the classic Elastic Reality application featured items like shape grouping which could be used for matting or complex intersection groups, a path tracing tool, and more seldom used motion graphics tools to constrain and animate shapes on a path and edit keyframes. Avid DS features equivalent animation tools in its " Graphics " module, and standard tools in these host applications can be used to mask and combine image warping effects, often in ways more powerful than the classic Elastic Reality application offered. It's difficult to see elastic reality in a sentence. Compared to the classic Elastic Reality application, these effects use the 2D shape, user interface and other features native to these products, and the interaction is different, although the end results can be the same. Of Madison, Wisconsin, for shares valued at more than $ 48 million.
