The Eovia Corporation was founded in November 2000, with offices in both the
US and
France
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. The company's
3D computer graphics
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software products were aimed towards professional and amateur artists, with a focus on remaining accessible in price and usability.
On April 25, 2006, it was announced that
DAZ Productions (now Daz 3D Inc) had acquired the US division of Eovia, as well as the rights to
Carrara
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and
Hexagon
In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek , , meaning "six", and , , meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon. The total of the internal angles of any simple (non-self-intersecting) hexagon is 720°.
Regular hexagon
A regular hexagon is de ...
.
In June 2006,
Amapi, Eovia's last remaining product, was acquired by
e frontier. However, the future of Amapi's development is unclear, as it relies on the rendering engine from Carrara 3, now a Daz 3D product.
In July 2007,
e frontier closed the France branch and let the
Amapi development team go.
Good bye e frontier, Good bye Amapi...
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In March 2012, EOVIA founded a new Asset management company, Trade my Bitcoin
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in London
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with the participation of BARCLAYS Securities.
Products
* Carrara
Carrara ( ; ; , ) is a town and ''comune'' in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey Carrara marble, marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some Boxing the compass, ...
: Originally acquired from MetaCreations
MetaCreations was a computer software company that was best known for its graphics editor, graphics applications, notably Carrara (software), Ray Dream Studio/Infini D, Corel Painter, Fractal Design Painter, Bryce (software), Bryce, and Kai's Po ...
, Carrara
Carrara ( ; ; , ) is a town and ''comune'' in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey Carrara marble, marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some Boxing the compass, ...
is a toolset used for 3D modeling
In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the process of developing a mathematical coordinate-based Computer representation of surfaces, representation of a surface of an object (inanimate or living) in Three-dimensional space, three dimensions vi ...
, texturing, animation
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, and industrial design
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.
**VectorStyle: VectorStyle is a Carrara plug-in allowing 3D scenes to be rendered to two-dimensional vector graphics
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in a variety of graphic styles and file formats. A popular use is rendering an animated 3D scene as an Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a mostly discontinuedAlthough it is discontinued by Adobe Inc., for the Chinese market it is developed by Zhongcheng and for the international enterprise market it is developed by Ha ...
file.
* Amapi: Amapi is an application used for the conception and creation of high-end 3D models, often used for product design and architecture.
* Hexagon
In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek , , meaning "six", and , , meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon. The total of the internal angles of any simple (non-self-intersecting) hexagon is 720°.
Regular hexagon
A regular hexagon is de ...
: Hexagon is a 3D polygon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure made up of line segments connected to form a closed polygonal chain.
The segments of a closed polygonal chain are called its '' edges'' or ''sides''. The points where two edges meet are the polygon ...
al modeler used for the creation of organic 3D models.
*''Carrara Basics'': a simplified, easy to use and learn version of Carrara.
References
External links
Daz 3D web sitee frontier web site3DExtract.com
Defunct software companies of the United States
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