News Release

PLENOPTICS ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF PHOTOGENESIS PLUG-IN TO MULTIGEN CREATOR

New Software Offering Expands Speed of Utilizing Photos as Source Data in MultiGen Creator

Edinburgh, Scotland - May 9, 2005 - Plenoptics Ltd, the developers of sophisticated photo-based modeling solutions announced the availability of PhotoGenesis, 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.

PhotoGenesis provides 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 PhotoGenesis 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-Paradigm as the premier realtime 3D toolset solutions provider for the visual simulation industry", states Roy Middleton, CEO of Plenoptics. "The integration of our photo-modeling technology with MultiGen Creator adds a new dimension to the traditional methods of modeling and considerably enhances the ability to create photo-realistic 3D content. Individually these tools are extremely productive but together they combine to form a far more powerful and flexible solution to modeling than has been possible previously."

"The Plenoptics PhotoGenesis plug-in to Creator is a powerful and productive addition to the Creator suite of tools," said Sandeep Divekar, President/CEO of MultiGen-Paradigm. "Its ease of use and ability to extract geometry from either a single or multiple photographs makes it a valuable asset for anyone who needs to rapidly generate accurate, hi-fidelity, site-specific models for their OpenFlight® application."

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

About Plenoptics
Plenoptics is a recently formed Scottish 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, PhotoGenesis, 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 visual simulation 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 at www.multigen-paradigm.com.

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For more information, press only:
Roy Middleton
Plenoptics Ltd.
+44 (0)131 472 4820
roy_middleton@plenoptics.com

Karen Kambe
408.878.0805
karen.kambe@ca.com

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