http://www.sgi.com/products/appsdirectory.dir/Applications/Animation/ApplicationNumber2450.html (Silicon Surf Promotional CD, 01/1995)Newsroom Atlas has been specially designed for the automatic generation of both still and animated maps for news programs and other television and audio visual applications.
A designer will create a style profile for the maps to be used on a particular bulletin including variables such as land and sea styles, border styles, city name and indicator formats, roads, rivers, title styles and perspective. The styles are sorted in a library from which the graphics creator can make selections.
Maps for on air transmission can be swiftly and easily created by simply selecting the area to be displayed, setting the level of detail desired and hitting go!
Lynwen Goldspink
Marketing Manager Parallax Software Inc. 3 Soho Street London, W1V 5FA UK 011-44-71-287-3626 fax:011-44-71-494-2822