MascotCapsule® Style3D

Easy-to-develop 3D user interface with superb functionality, design, and operability
Style3D is a solution to outperform any competition on the Android environment

Style3D is a 3D user interface (UI) middleware jointly developed by HI CORPORATION and INNOPHILIA Co., Ltd. (Korea). Versatile 3D effects can be effortlessly created for the address book, playlist, photo viewer, home applications (*1), and other UIs running on the Android environment. The 3D rendering engine uses the native code to implement all the required functionalities to be compliant with OpenGL ES (*2). As a result, beautiful and speedy graphics can be rendered on the Android environment.

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Style3D features

Recommended devices

Note: Smartphone is especially recommended among mobile phones.

A simple answer to various UI development issues on the Android environment
- No need for a highly specialized knowledge and complex programming in 3D graphics and OpenGL ES
  OpenGL ES combines polygons, lines, dots, and other basic shapes to render complicated shapes. To control this rendering process, it requires a detailed setting, extensive knowledge of 3D graphics, and time-consuming coding.
  
  The native core of Style3D eliminates such complexities, and streamlines programming procedures by providing the APIs that are highly consistent with the Android framework.
  Capable of loading the model data created in commercial 3D authoring tools, Style3D greatly reduces the data creation workload compared with OpenGL ES.
- High speed rendering
  The Style3D native core directly controls OpenGL ES from the native layer, ultimately increasing the 3D graphics processing power and rendering speed.
- Facilitates the development of sophisticated UIs that combine 2D and 3D
  On the Android environment, it has been difficult to achieve a graphical effect combining 2D and 3D. Style3D can simply do just that. A set of ready-to-use screen transition patterns, and layout flexibility help you design beautiful UIs at ease. To ensure smooth adoption, Style3D also provides classes and methods that have a close affinity with the Android framework.
No need for a special development environment

Simply use the Style3D SDK (Software Development Kit) on the standard SDK of Android environment, and you are ready to develop the UI. There is no need to learn a new tool to use Style3D.

System architecture

Functional specifications

Specifications

Operating environment	CPU	ARM: ARM9 or above Freescale: i.MX series Qualcomm: MSM7200/7500/Snapdragon Texas Instruments: OMAP 32-bit 400 MHz or above is recommended (Capable of running without a floating-point hardware)
	Code size	Rendering engine's Style3D native core: Approx. 350 KB Java wrapper's jar library: Approx. 65 KB Style3D code body's jar library: Approx. 200 KB
	Engine work area	2 MB or more is recommended, including data load area Note: The actual required work area varies depending on the content.
	3D hardware accelerator	AMD: Imageon Imagination Technologies: POWERVR SGX series NVIDIA: GoForce Qualcomm: Built-in accelerator of MSM7200/7500/Snapdragon Other OpenGL ES compliant 3D hardware accelerators that run on the Android platform
OS/Platforms		Android 2.1 or later
3D authoring tools		3ds Max 2009/2010/2011(32/64 bit) Maya 2009/2010/2011 LightWave 3D 7.5 or later Softimage 7.5/2010

Functionalities

3D model rendering/animation	Displays multiple 3D models, and individually executes animations using them
Flexible special 3D view	Special view for displaying 3D models. Freedom of layout is similar to other views
Combination of 2D/3D layout	Displays a 2D image/text and a 3D model at the same time, and individually updates them
3D screen transition effect	Renders real-time animations connecting between two views to create a 3D screen transition effect
3D list view	Simultaneously displays multiple 3D models as elements of a list, in a 3D space
Picking area detection for a 3D object	Detects whether or not the point specified by a touch-panel screen or a cursor belongs to a 3D model's picking area
Applying a 2D image/text to a 3D model	As a texture, applies a 2D image/text to a 3D model
Overlapping a 2D image/text with a 3D model	Places a 2D image/text and a 3D model, so that they overlap with each other

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*1 In the Android environment, home applications constitute the home screen (standby screen), which starts up when the handset's home key is pressed-down. Home applications can launch the widget and applications whose icons are placed in arbitrary positions on the screen.

*2 Stands for OpenGL for Embedded Systems, OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. It is a 3D graphics API for embedded devices. For more information, please visit the Khronos Group website at http://www.khronos.org/opengles/.