For Immediate Release

PLENOPTICS ANNOUNCES EFFORT TO PROVIDE PHOTO-BASED MODELING IN MULTIGEN CREATOR
New Software Offering Expands Speed of Utilizing Photos as Source Data in MultiGen Creator

International Training and Education Conference (ITEC) - London, England - April 20, 2004 -

Plenoptics Ltd, the developers of sophisticated photo-based modeling solutions, today announced efforts to develop a photo-based modeling plug-in to MultiGen Creator™, MultiGen-Paradigm's comprehensive toolset that enables rapid generation of optimized object models, high-fidelity site-level terrain and synthetic environments for use in realtime 3D visual simulation, urban simulation and general visualization applications. MultiGen-Paradigm will be demonstrating this new functionality in its ITEC booth #526.

The relationship between Plenoptics and MultiGen-Paradigm would provide visual simulation and training customers with the ability to build and texture 3D models using photos as source data. The use of photos as source data increases the realism of scenes and objects, and provides a significant time and cost savings to content creation. Plenoptics' photo-based modeling technology as a plug-in to Creator allows users to directly integrate their photographic assets into the realtime 3D content creation process, thereby generating accurate and vivid models and objects faster since the geometry matches the images that also are used for texture application.

"Plenoptics recognizes MultiGen Creator as the premier realtime 3D modeling toolkit for the vis-sim industry", states Roy Middleton, CEO of Plenoptics. "By integrating our photo-modeling technology with Creator, we are expanding modelers' ability to create photo-realistic content for interactive simulations, more quickly and easily. Together these tools provide a far more powerful and flexible solution to modeling than has been possible previously."

"Plenoptics' photo-modeling plug-in development efforts will be a valuable addition to Creator in terms of productivity and realism," says Sandeep Divekar, CEO of MultiGen-Paradigm. "Plenoptics ongoing development of plug-in solutions to Creator validates MultiGen-Paradigm's strategy to make our products as flexible as possible to meet the specific needs of our customers."

Pricing and Availability
The Scenestealer plug-in for MultiGen Creator will be available in Q3 2004. For pricing information, contact your local sales representative or distributor or visit www.multigen-paradigm.com for further information.

About Plenoptics
Plenoptics is a newly formed Scottish based company that is working at the forefront of combined computer vision and computer graphics technologies. They have developed a unique state-of-the-art photo-modeling software product, SceneStealer, which provides for the rapid creation of highly-realistic accurate 3D models of the built environment from photographs. Considerable interest has been shown from many sectors, but in particular the vis-sim industry.

About MultiGen-Paradigm
MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc. leads the industry in providing commercial-off-the-shelf, realtime 3D simulation software tools and solutions to interactively create and run visual and sensor simulation, simulation-based training, urban simulation and 3D GIS visualization applications. Further information about MultiGen-Paradigm and its products and services can be found on the World Wide Web at www.multigen-paradigm.com.

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For more information, press only:
Karen Kambe
MultiGen-Paradigm
408/965-8508
karen.kambe@ca.com

Roy Middleton
Plenoptics Ltd.
+44 7799 742964
roy_middleton@plenoptics.com

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