3D Pipeline Announces BioChemFX

-- If someone dropped toxic gas in your city, where would it go? 3D Pipeline Corporation today announced BioChemFX, a realtime gas dispersion simulation system. Designed by physicists, BioChemFX allows accurate and rapid visualization of chemical and biological contaminants in real-world urban environments.

If someone dropped toxic gas in your city, where would it go? 3D Pipeline Corporation today announced BioChemFX, a realtime gas dispersion simulation system. Designed by physicists, BioChemFX allows accurate and rapid visualization of chemical and biological contaminants in real-world urban environments. BioChemFX can represent either vapor density or overall toxicity levels for over 25 of the most common bio-chemical agents. For an accurate view of emergency conditions, BioChemFX considers wind, rain, buildings, turbulence and other complex real world interactions.

In a continuing effort to provide useful visualization technologies for the government and DoD community, 3D Pipeline created BioChemFX. It provides a highly extensible basis for further gas and particle simulation, with a focus on fast, versatile visualization. This technology allows quick modeling of what if" scenarios for emergency and rescue personnel, among others. Rapid analysis of a threat is facilitated by map-based representations.

BioChemFX accurately simulates both explosive and continuous gas emissions. Based on 3-dimensional algorithms, BioChemFX operates in real time when depicting a 2D scene. Equally accurate 3D analysis is also available, with speed dependent upon scene resolution and processing power.

The package is programmed in C/C++, and runs on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware. BioChemFX can be integrated into visualization and simulation packages via a simple and intuitive Application Programmers Interface (API).

Figure 1: A simulation of a tear gas emission over Berkeley campus

As part of a continuing effort to reproduce the real world in virtual space, 3D Pipeline has created a wide array of simulation libraries. From underwater light refraction to radio wave dispersion, we make a science of what has, until now, been an art. For more information on SmartFX and other forays into the realm of the graphically possible, please visit www.3dpipeline.com.

3D Pipeline Corporation is a product development firm specializing in 3D simulations and applications. A balanced staff of programmers, artists, writers, QA and management provides the structure necessary to produce everything required for the development of innovative technologies. With a history as a low-level graphics contracting house, 3D Pipeline has built a reputation with successful projects in game, military, and commercial visualization markets.