Advanced Visualizer from Alias/Wavefront is an integrated workstation-based 3D animation system that offers a comprehensive set of tools for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, image composition, and video output.

The Advanced Visualizer provides:

• Geometric, analysis, and motion data importation from a wide range of CAD, dynamics and structural systems.
• Automatic object simplification and switching tools for working with ultra-large production data sets.
• Motion for an unlimited number of objects, cameras, and lights with Wavefront SmartCurve editing techique.
• Interactive test rendering and high-quality, free-form surface rendering
• Software rotoscoping for matching computer animation with live action background footage.
• Realistic imaging effects, including soft shadows, reflection, refraction, textures, and displacememt maps, using Wavefront's fast hybrid scanline/raytracing renderer.
• Interactive image layering and output to video with Wavefront's new Recording Composer.
• Powerful scripting and customization tools, open file formats, and user-defined interfaces.

For more information on Advanced Visualizer, please visit the Alias/Wavefront Advanced Visualizer web page.

All operations within Advanced Visualizer are performed in immediate mode with double buffered windows. There are four basic modes of operation within Advanced Visualizer:

 
• 55% material shading (textured, z-buffered, backface-culled, 2 local lights)
  • 95% perspective, 80% trilinear mipmapped, modulated (41.8%)
  • 95% perspective, 20% nearest, modulated (10.45%)
  • 5% ortho, 80% trilinear mipmapped, modulated (2.2%)
  • 5% ortho, 20% nearest, modulated (.55%)
• 30% wireframe (no z-buffering, no lighting)
  • 95% perspective (28.5%)
  • 5% ortho (1.5%)
• 10% smooth shading (z-buffered, backface-culled, 2 local lights)
  • 95% perspective (9.5%)
  • 5% ortho (.5%)
• 5% flat shading (z-buffered, backface-culled, 2 local lights)
  • 95% perspective (4.75%)
  • 5% ortho (.25%)

These are the 10 tests specified by the viewset that represent the most common operations performed by Advanced Visualizer:

Test	Weight	Advanced Visualizer functionality represented
1	41.8%	Material shading of polygonal animation model with highest interactive image fidelity and perspective projection.
2	28.5%	Wireframe rendering of polygonal animation model with perspective projection.
3	10.45%	Material shading of polygonal animation model with lowest interactive image fidelity and perspective projection.
4	9.5%	Smooth shading of polygonal animation model with perspective projection.
5	4.75%	Flat shading of polygonal animation model with perspective projection.
6	2.2%	Material shading of polygonal animation model with highest interactive image fidelity and orthogonal projection.
7	1.5%	Wireframe rendering of polygonal animation model with orthogonal projection.
8	.55%	Material shading of polygonal animation model with lowest interactive image fidelity and orthogonal projection.
9	.5%	Smooth shading of polygonal animation model with orthogonal projection.
10	.25%	Flat shading of polygonal animation model with orthogonal projection.

Test #	Weight (%)	Testing Parameters (Also see default parameters)
1	41.8%	-pg DYN -rm POLYGON -cp FRAME -zb -nll 2 -bf -tx advs1.mtv -magf LINEAR -minf LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR -te MODULATE -xws 720 -yws 720
2	28.5%	-pg DYN -rm LINE -cp FRAME -xws 720 -yws 720
3	10.45%	-pg DYN -rm POLYGON -cp FRAME -zb -nll 2 -bf -tx advs2.mtv -te MODULATE -xws 720 -yws 720
4	9.5%	-pg DYN -rm POLYGON -cp FRAME -zb -nll 2 -bf -xws 720 -yws 720
5	4.75%	-pg DYN -rm POLYGON -cp FRAME -zb -f -nll 2 -bf -xws 720 -yws 720
6	2.2%	-pg DYN -rm POLYGON -cp FRAME -zb -nll 2 -or -bf -tx advs1.mtv -magf LINEAR -minf LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR -te MODULATE -xws 720 -yws 720
7	1.5%	-pg DYN -rm LINE -cp FRAME -or -xws 720 -yws 720
8	.55%	-pg DYN -rm POLYGON -cp FRAME -zb -nll 2 -or -bf -tx advs2.mtv -te MODULATE -xws 720 -yws 720
9	.5%	-pg DYN -rm POLYGON -cp FRAME -zb -nll 2 -or -bf -xws 720 -yws 720
10	.25%	-pg DYN -rm POLYGON -cp FRAME -zb -f -nll 2 -or -bf -xws 720 -yws 720