Right Hemisphere Unveils Deep Exploration 6 Client Software

By DE Editors

Right Hemisphere has announced a new release of its Deep Exploration client software. Deep Exploration 6 has evolved to become integrated into Right Hemisphere’s visual solutions and supporting technology infrastructure. New features include a configurable workflow-oriented user interface (UI); improved ability to view, select, and navigate 3D models; a new XML file format; and a new rendering engine.

“Unifying visual and text-based product information is critical to enabling the Visual Enterprise. What Deep Exploration does for the Visual Enterprise is deliver navigation, authoring and repurposing of complex product information across a wide variety of business workflows,” said Mark Thomas, founder and CTO at Right Hemisphere. “For Deep Exploration 6, we developed a more flexible and configurable user interface. We wanted to simplify the creation of a wide variety of downstream deliverables in alignment with the user’s specific workflow needs.   We’ve also made Deep Exploration easier to integrate with our Deep Server product as well as other enterprise systems in order to help unify and synchronize visual product information with business data for our customers who manufacture complex products.”

Deep Exploration 6 has a redesigned UI to support a variety of different end user tasks, workflows, and deliverables. The new UI allows users to optimize their screen real estate for higher productivity. The heart of the new UI is the Layout Manager that manages the visibility and order of the application’s tool tabs. The tool tabs present only the capabilities and panels required for the specific task at hand and guide the user through the necessary steps to create an end a deliverable such as a 2D technical illustration, a set of manufacturing work instructions, or a photorealistic 3D image. 

Deep Exploration 6 also includes a new rendering engine that employs high dynamic range (HDR) imaging technology. HDR imaging techniques support a wider range of luminance in a 3D scene—from direct sunlight to subtle shadows. With this HDR rendering engine, Deep Exploration 6 users can drag and drop HDR materials, environment maps, and background images also known as “back plates” into a 3D scene.

The product also contains new tools and features to enable users to navigate, select and review large, complex 3D models. The navigation of any model is enhanced with the new Volume Select tool, which lets users choose an area of the model by defining variables of the “geometric envelope”—the area inside a square, sphere, or rectangle. 

In Deep Exploration 6, the entire scene graph—or data structure—can now be described by XML. This allows Right Hemisphere to achieve a more seamless level of integration with customers’ existing enterprise systems. 

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.