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2009-09 Bionatics announces the release the version 2 of LandSIM3D®

Bionatics, the technology leader in 3D territory modeling software, announces the release of the version 2.0 of LandSIM3D, its 3D simulation and visualization software dedicated to territory planning and landscape preservation. This version 2 offers a great list of new features to answer the growing needs of city planning and landscape design professionals looking for powerful simulation and decision making tools able to guaranty a sustainable development of the territory.
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2008-10 Bionatics announces the release of version 1.5 of LandSIM3D®

Bionatics, le leading territory 3D software modeling and vizualisation, announces the soon release of the version 1.5 of LandSIM3D®. "This new version confirms the marketing position of LandSIM3D as a 3D decision making tool allowing a simple and affordable access to increasingly rich and complex geographic information" explains Stéphane GOURGOUT, Sales & Marketing Vice President and co-founder of Bionatics."LandSIM3D v1.5 enables urban and land planning professionals to easily switch from 2D to 3D without requiring a high level of expertise in 3D computer graphics."
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2008-06 Thales selects Blueberry3D® as a component for ThalesView

Bionatics, the technology leader in procedural modeling software for natural environments has been selected by Thales to provide Blueberry3D technology as a component within the ThalesView product.
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2008-06 Bionatics & Abvent, developer of Artlantis®, sign a long-term partnership.

Abvent, editor developer of Artlantis®, and Bionatics have signed a long-term partnership in order to develop a new collection of 3D plants and trees compatible with Artlantis. Abvent will offer its customers an exclusive collection of CD made from the Bionatics plant catalog, classified in thematics and optimized for rendering made with Artlantis.
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2008-06 Bionatics releases natFX® version 5 for Autodesk® 3ds Max®

“natFX version 5 was developed to manage even better the loading, computing and visualization of large scenes, often heavy in plants and trees, into 3ds Max.”, explains Stephan Gourgout, Vice President and Sales Director. ”the new features of natFX combined with the latest evolutions of 3ds Max, offer together a powerful solution package to design and render complex natural scenes in varied industries such as architectural visualization, video game developement or 3D animated movies.”
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2007-07 Bionatics releases BLUEBERRY3D™ V2.5 supporting OpenSceneGraph

This new release contains new features and optimization enhancements, and could also be delivered with an Application Programmer Interface (API) enabling Blueberry3D to be plugged within OpenSceneGraph based solutions. As previously, Blueberry3D version 2.5 is still supporting and optimized for MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc products.
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2007-03 Bionatics releases its EASYnat® plant modeler for AutoCAD® 2008

Bionatics announces the launch of its EASYnat software for AutoCAD 2008. Bionatics continues to extend its technological collaboration with Autodesk in making EASYnat compatible with the world's best selling CAD software. EASYnat is now offered free to all AutoCAD 2008 users with 6 plants.
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2007-01 Bionatics reveals its new LandSIM3D® software at IMAGINA

Bionatics, the leading developer of 3D plant modeling and simulation tools for the 3D industry, announces the upcoming release of its newest simulation software: LandSIM3D®. This is a new generation of simulation software developed for analysis, design and presentation of landscape projects. LandSIM3D will be revealed for the first time in Europe at the IMAGINA show, in Monaco, from January 31st to February 2nd, 2007, on the Bionatics booth #B5, as well as during an exclusive conference given on January 31st, 2:00 PM during the day dedicated to 3D simulation for landscape and territory planning.
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2005-04 - REALnatT PREMIUM for MultiGen-Paradigm MultiGen® Creator™ now shipping

Bionatics, the world leader in 3D plant modeling and simulation, launches REALnat® Premium™ as a plug-in to MultiGen-Paradigm®'s MultiGen® Creator™. MultiGen Creator is a comprehensive toolset for the rapid generation of optimized object models, high fidelity terrain and synthetic environments for use in real-time 3D visual simulation, simulation based training, and urban simulation.
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2005-04 A new Bionatics partner in Japan for natFX®: Indyzone

In response to many japanese companies' interest for Bionatics' solutions for entertainement and CG animation industries, Indyzone, a major Japanese partner joined Bionatics' networks to promote natFX over Japan.
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2005-03 natFX 3.0 for Maya launches at GDC 2005

In response to the ever-changing needs of the entertainment industry, Bionatics announces the launch of natFX 3.0. Designed to accommodate the new requests of animation and videogame industries, this major release of natFX offers increased realism, enhanced animation features, additional model optimizations and twice more species in the library.
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2004-12 Bionatics acquires Blueberry3D® technology.

Bionatics today announced the signature of a technology transfer of Blueberry3D™ with Sjoland & Thyselius Virtual Reality Systems (STVRS), a leading procedural 3D terrain editing and visual solution for the real-time industry.
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2004-06 Bionatics and Eden Games sign an agreement of partnership

Eden Games, a French video game studio, has chosen Bionatics amongst other companies in the market, to develop a new generation of 3D plant modeler. Bionatics will now be able to evolve quickly and improve its product natFX^® for Maya^®, and address even closer the needs of its customers in the video game industry.
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2004-04 EASYnat® 2.5 available for purchase

Bionatics, the world leader in 3D plant modeling for the design visualization industry, announces today the availability of EASYNat® 2.5 for purchase.
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2004-03 Bionatics doubles its efforts to colloborate with independant game studios

For several years now, Bionatics, the world leader in the development of plant modeling software solutions, is working hard to allow small and independant game studios compete with the majors.
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2004-03 Bionatics Education Packages now available

To allow Training Centers and Universities to benefit from its innovative and professional tools, Bionatics is launching an Educational offer on its products EASYnat, natFX and REALnat.
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2003-11 Bionatics revolutionizes online access to 3D plants

Bionatics, the world leader in plant modeling and simulation for the 3D industry, announces today a new online purchasing service for its virtual plants “Plant On Command”. All of the plants available in the Bionatics catalogue of more than 300 virtual seeds can be chosen and bought individually in relation to the user's needs and timing.
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2003-10 Top Partners and Plug-in Developers Embrace Discreet 3ds max 6 Software

Bionatics has been choosen by Discreet as one of the 4 strategic partners adding new values and benefits to the new relase of 3ds max 6 with the integration of its award wining EASYnat plant modeler dedicated to the architecture community.
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2003-05 Bionatics report from E3 : Top 5 Game leaders choose natFX

Bionatics reports from this year's E3, that among the world's top 10 game leaders, 5 of them are using natFX with 3ds max or Maya including Ubisoft, Lucas Arts, Eidos, Electronic Arts, and Atari.
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2002-10 Bionatics releasing natFX v2.0 for Maya. New hybrid 2D/3D technology and subdivision surfacing.

natFX v2.0 for Maya is Bionatics' latest 3D plant modeler, already highly acclaimed among 3D animation professionals. natFX v2.0 now supports subdivision surfacing and its famous 2D/3D hybrid technology presently available in the 3ds max version. Users may now generate photo-realistic light-polygonal trees on the fly with built-in skeletons ready for animation.
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2002-01 BIONATICS is releasing EASYnat® for 3D Studio Max® 4

Bionatics' continued efforts in bringing the CG industry the very best plant animation and simulation software solutions has led to our latest development: EASYnat for 3D Max.
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2001-10 A plant growth simulator, use EASYnat in your architectural projects

Bionatics will release EASYnat on November 5. A plug-in for Autodesk' s 3D Studio Viz, this 3D plant modeler for architects will be on display at the international construction conference, BATIMAT, from November 5 to November 10 2001 in Paris.
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2001-09 BIONATICS launches itself in e-commerce with virtual seeds

More than ever, the French plant growth simulation software developer BIONATICS is answering the computer graphics requirements and needs of professionals. A platform of information, www.bionatics.com is structured by its proposed software communities and allows 3D animation professionals to purchase them on-line.
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2001-07 BIONATICS is releasing natFX®, the first 3D plant modeler using behavioral animation technology.

As of the first of August, Bionatics will start commercializing natFX®, a virtual plant modeling software destined for the 3D animation and video game markets. Using a bio-computing technology, this new generation software allows for easy and rapid animation of complex vegetation. Initially a Maya® plug-in, natFX® will also be made available for 3D Studio Max® before year's end.
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2001-05 BIONATICS and ANTYCIP seed the virtual reality market and the 3D real-time simulation industry with virtual plants

Bionatics, simulation and plant growth software editor, confines the distribution of its 3D modeling of virtual plants software, REALnat™ to Antycip, the leading European distributor of virtual reality software and real-time applications.
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2001-04 Bionatics launches REALnat™ : the first-ever plant modeling software targeting 3D real-time simulations

Bionatics, a software company specializing in modeling 3D virtual plants and trees, is proud to launch REALnat™, the first 3D plant modeler targeting the simulation industry and 3D real-time database designers. Simple and rapid, REALnat creates realistic 3D vegetation adapted to refresh rate limits in real-time environments.
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