Mojoworld wins a Computer Graphics World 2001 Innovation Award.
It's encouraging to see that despite a slow economy and uncertain times, the pace of computer graphics innovation continues to be swift. In this year, as in each of the seven preceding it, the editors of Computer Graphics World were confronted with a stunning array of new products and technologies. Choosing our winners was just as difficult as always, but we finally determined 20 products that best represent the essence of innovation in visual computing.
Pandromeda's MojoWorld allows users to generate not just landscapes but also in-depth "worlds" through which they can move as the program generates changing terrain in real time. These worlds include spherical, planetary environments, continents with lakes and rivers, and rings and multiple moons for the planets. MojoWorld is entirely procedural, so all scenery is created on the fly. A scene can be captured at any point and rendered as a still image, with pixel-level detail at any resolution. Animators who wish to go beyond the imagery provided by Pandromeda may design their own environments as MojoWorld plug-ins, because the program was developed with an open architecture. MojoWorld is available in two packages: Transporter, a free "exploration" tool, and Generator, which enables full creation capabilities.
CGW Issue: Volume: 24 Issue: 12 (December 2001).