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WASP3D 2009
Unveiling WASP3D 2009 broadcast graphics... Afresh
Discover the fresh-new WASP3D 2009 Release power-packed with host of new Design WASP3D is a networked workflow based real-time 3D graphics solution created
features, Easy Workflow & Interactivity… specifically for television stations & post production houses that are looking at
presenting their content in a rich, engaging and interactive way. It is an all-in-one,
comprehensive solution for rapid creation of stunning 3D graphics, their management
and on-air delivery.

WASP3D 2009 redefines the broadcast graphics paradigm with a

host of new features and interactivity. The solution comes with a touch-gesture
based interactive tool that makes the presentation simple, impressive and interactive.

Interactivity
WASPi Mimosa: WASP3D 2009 offers WASPi Mimosa, WASP3D 2009 is equipped with WASPi Mimosa, using which the anchors and reporters can now demonstrate
a touch-gesture based application for interactive information like news, weather updates, vote swings, change in stock prices, currency fluctuations and more with a simple
presentation of content. Mimosa is equipped with touch on a flat panel display or a video wall.
interactive telestration tools (for drawing arrows,
highlighters, ellipses etc.), touch-gesture based
actions (including zoom, pan, rotate), menu & other WASP3D Workflow
tools for building complex interactive scenes. WASP3D is a networked workflow designed to accelerate the overall time-to-air. It offers a scalable workflow that can be
scaled up or down depending upon the television stations' requirements. The WASP3D workflow consists of following
modules:

Easy Workflow for Accelerating Time-to-Air Drone Designer : Graphics creation & animation
Unified Basic Templating (UBT) for Virtually Zero Coding: Drone Designer 2009 comes with UBT Comb Builder : Form creation & publishing
feature that allows hassle-free creation of data entry forms within the same module. This means that the Data Buzz : Data entry & population of playlists
graphic artists do not have to use a separate application for form creation. On-Air Playout : Graphics delivery mechanism using Sting Client & Server
WASPi Mimosa : Touch screen control application
Widgets for WASP (WFW): A unique quick access 'Touch Screen Toolbar' in Drone Designer module
which enables the user to move controls such as pan, zoom or rotate on a touch screen panel.

Microsoft Visual Studio© (VSTA) for complex data graphics: Easy programming for writing customized Key Features
broadcast applications based on the visual studio 2008. Everything in the workflow is programmable right • Real-time 3D graphics on-the-fly
from playlist instance types, data entry interface, shot boxes etc. • UBT (Unified Basic Templating) for virtually zero-coding environment
• WASPi Mimosa with inbuilt touch-gesture based tools and telestration capabilities for
interactive graphics
Unmatched Design Effects & Animation Tools • Uncluttered workflow for speedy design to playout
Drone Designer 2009 (graphics creation module) offers unlimited inbuilt design effects and animation • Scalable architecture for scaling up as per requirements
tools for graphic artists to visualize, animate and create broadcast quality 3D graphics. Few of them are: • WAX (WASP Asset eXchange) for sharing of media assets across the network
• One solution for multiple applications including news, business, sports, elections &
Real-time Reflection & Refraction: Add realism to your scene graphs with mirror reflection or see live events, weather, digital signage and more
through glass like refraction effect. • Seamless integration with leading Newsroom & Production automation systems
• Supports HD and SD video formats
• SDK for writing custom broadcast applications
• Based on futuristic Microsoft Direct X © technology
 DRONERapid
DESIGNER
Drone Designer is the graphics creation module of WASP3D workflow system. Highly
intuitive interface with a low learning curve, Drone Designer allows a graphic artist to
generate, manipulate, animate and visualize 3D objects with great ease.

3D Graphics Creation

The solution is equipped with ready to use design effects such as

Real-time Refraction & Reflection, X-ray, Lightening Textures, Real-time
Cloth, Text Effect, Tile Effect and many more. Drone Designer 2009 introduces Shape File Imports (.shp)
numerous workflow enhancers for blazing speed and powerful new Import ESRI geospatial vector data format and assign colors to the database associated polygons. Shape file database
design effects for rapid creation of rich broadcast quality 3D graphics. shows the region names in poly data property where you can set the column name as area code, state name etc. and can
drag-drop colors for individual polygon from the color swatch provided.

Key Features
Unified Basic Templating (UBT) Real-time Bump Mapping:
One of the major features introduced in Drone Designer 2009 is the Real-time Bump Mapping adds realism to rendered surfaces where lighter (whiter) areas of the texture map appear to be
ability to design the 'Data Input' user interface of the graphics template. raised, and darker (blacker) areas appear to be low. This result is a richer, more detailed surface representation.
Users can simply drag-drop the defined variable elements (User-Tags) to
that it can be easily used by television stations of any size for their basic
Stencil Matte:
data driven graphics requirements without writing complex codes. Mask/Matte specific objects in the scene.

Widgets for WASP (WFW) MENU GROUPS:

Drone Designer 2009 comes with a unique quick access 'Touch Screen Designing touch (gesture) based Menu system for WASPi Mimosa.
Toolbar' which enables the user to move commonly used controls such
as pan, zoom or rotate on a separate touch screen monitor.
E-TEXT (Emoticon based Text)
Design SMS based template using E-Text with customized icons (smileys,
Real-time Reflection & Refractions emoticons) and animate them and link to third-party data aggregators.
Add realism to your scene graphs with Real-time Reflection including flat
mirrors using Render Target Textures. Give your object(s) a see through
glass like Real-time Refraction using snapshot textures.
WSIWIG Triggers for WASPi Mimosa
Artists can now design for WASPi Mimosa - the Interactive touch screen
Phong Shading HLSL Shaders based presentation solution. 42 Touch gestures corresponding to
With the same number of polygons, achieve realistic visual mouse actions can be visually attached to any object to design
representation of the scene objects. The specular highlights in Phong interactive 3D templates.
tend to be more accurate and the vertex highlights much sharper. 
WASP3D also offers Gouraud and Flat Shading modes.
External Triggers for Intra Scene Actions
Design scenes triggering conjunctional Intra-Scene actions. The
external triggers can also be used for sending/receiving commands to
3D Text with Character Based Effects
the Bee Keeper module, which in turn can be integrated with most of the
Text effects provide the flexibility of spline based character-wise animations. Graphic Artist can create custom character
available Newsroom automation systems.
animations: type-write, fly-ins, erase, translate, scale and rotate-on the characters local or global transformation axis. The
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text objects can be defined to act as Countdowns, Date, Time objects, Clock objects, Integers and more.
WASP3D SDK
Integrated with Microsoft VSTA © for developers of broadcast & interactive applications (live sports graphics, elections,
Particle System & Particle Dynamics
Real-time emitter based particles with wind, gravity, speed parameters help in achieving realistic effects. Objects & shapes betting results, interactive TV applications, business graphics & more).It includes a comprehensive visual programming
can also be the emitted particles of the particle system. Graphic Designer can now create realistic explosions, water, snow, IDE, supporting C#.NET and VB.NET. Developers can to databases, wire-feeds, RSS feeds and data gateways to build
rain & more. automation support for data entry. In addition, it offers host of options like publishing WASP3D templates, custom playlist
creation, shotbox SDK application, WASP Mimosa code behind, better GUI, IDE integrated help and many more controls &
Planar Deflectors act as a shield to repel the particles generated by a particle system. Wind & Gravity Forces features available in .Net 2.0/3.5.
helps simulate real-world physics of particle dynamics.

Real-time Shadows
Shadows based on scene lights with shadow casting and receiving functionality. Artists also have the flexibility to have 2D
shadows based on Offset and Angles.
WASP3D WORKFLOW
Networked for Performance
COMB BUILDER
Easy Customization of Broadcast Applications
DATA BUZZ
Real-time Data Updation for Info Graphics

The earlier available Comb Builder is now powered with user freindly Microsoft VSTA© This is the data contribution client application. The user interface of a WASP3D scene
that utilizes very common & easy coding for creating custom user interface for data created in the Drone Designer (for basic data driven graphics) is available for the
entry. Comb Builder is useful for television stations where complex data graphics & non-design personnel to enter/modify the data fields and post them to a playlist.
analysis is required (like elections, sports, business etc.).

Comb Builder facilitates artists to easy drag-drop controls for creating custom Data Buzz is an operational template for playlist creation, program
user interface for data entry forms of WASP3D scenes. The controls added to the form creation and custom theme creation. It provides the news desk editor/ journalists the
simply need to be associated to the WASP3D data tags for it to be available for data entry. flexibility to manually populate the data entry form with data such as name, headlines, breaking
news etc. User also has the real-time data preview option available. Alternatively, for television stations that
need custom broadcast applications involving complex data graphics,
For Developers of Broadcast Applications the user can create data entry interface in the Comb Builder module.
It includes a comprehensive visual programming IDE, supporting C#.NET and VB.NET. Developers can create complex data
driven interfaces using the Comb Builder. The user can connect to databases, wire-feeds, RSS feeds and data gateways to An ActiveX MOS version of the data-entry client is available for
integration with the newsroom system.
build automation support for data entry. In addition, it offers host of options like publishing WASP3D templates, custom
playlist creation, shotbox SDK application, WASPi Mimosa code behind, better GUI, IDE integrated help and many more
controls & features available in .Net 2.0/3.5. KERNEL CONTROLLER
The Kernel Controller server manages, maintains and delivers data to all
the WASP3D clients across the network. It is the heart of the WASP3D
Microsoft VSTA© for Complex Data Graphics (Visual IDE)
networked solution. The Kernel Controller also ensures that concurrent
WASP3D 2009 offers very common and easy programming for writing
data is available to all Data Buzz clients across the network.
customized broadcast applications. Everything in the workflow is
programmable right from playlist instance types, data entry interface,

BEE KEEPER
shot boxes etc. based on the visual studio 2008. For, complex data
driven graphics, WASP3D 2009 offers a SDK (software developers kit)
which allows writing custom broadcast applications in sports, business,
elections & live events and more.
Automation System Control Application
Bee Keeper is an automation control application for Key Features & Benefits:
carrying out set of instructions in WASP3D. It is a gateway • Improved efficiency through process automation
that provides a standardized medium for communication • Supports all major third party automation and
between WASP3D and various newsroom and production news room systems
Key Features
automation systems. • Supports multiple protocols for communication
• Form creation tool for manual of automated data entry
like CII, GPI, MOS, TCP/IP
• Flexibility to design your own customized user-interface Bee Keeper is a vendor agnostic application developed for
• Automates all external triggers through playout
• Create and debug Custom playlist seamless integration of WASP3D workflow with production
control
• Create and debug widgets and add-ins for WASPi Mimosa automation and news room control systems (NRCS) such as
• Provides seamless integration with third party
• Flexibility to program almost everything right from playlist instance type, data Aveco, B4M, Dalet, enps, Harris D series, iNews, Norcom,
applications such as telestration systems, other
entry interface, shot boxes etc. Octopus, Omnibus or any other third party applications.
interactive systems
• Easy programming for writing custom broadcast applications • Automated control for pause, play, stop,
Bee Keeper connects all of the participating systems to
• Visual Programming IDE supporting C#.NET and VB.NET WASP3D and enables interaction between the automation scheduling graphics playout on-air, off-air
• Write SDK applications for complex data graphics systems and WASP3D through communication protocols • Auto-load playlist and update the running playlist
• Based on Microsoft Visual Studio 2008© like MOS, GPI, TCP-IP to list a few. • Auto-play from multiple or single playlist
 ON-AIR PLAYOUT
Speedy Playout of Graphics Real-time
WASPi MIMOSA
The Touch of Freshness

STING On-Air is the graphics delivery (playout) application. Designed for WASP3D 2009 offers WASPi Mimosa, a touch screen based
performance, the Sting on-air delivers the graphics in two modes: automated triggering of graphics application for presentation of content in a rich, engaging and
for unattended operations and manual triggering for production control based delivery. In the manual mode, the interactive way. Mimosa is a touch-screen based application that
playout component recognizes the user actions defined (pause-points, continue, play etc.) and waits for the user gives the user (anchor) extreme flexibility and total control over
decision to proceed. The On-Air Playout consists of the Sting On-Air server and the Sting On-Air client. the graphics system. Instead of using a mouse click, or cueing
for graphics change, the anchor can simply use their hands for
pointing, clicking and interacting with the graphics on screen.
STING CLIENT STING SERVER
The Sting Client is the controlling application of the The Sting Server is a power-packed, real-time rendering
server using which the content is triggered on-air. In a engine that integrates with all other WASP3D modules.
networked WASP3D architecture, users have the Sting Server generates the graphics as an HD/SD, video
flexibility to control and playout graphics to any of the I/O (key and fill).
Sting Servers on the network. Optionally multiple users WASPi Mimosa gives the presenter host of interactive
can trigger graphics on a single WASP3D server Key Features features like telestration (for drawing arrows,
simultaneously. • Windows based on-air playout application highlighters, ellipses etc.), gesture based actions
• Supports both HD & SD video formats (including zoom, pan, rotate), multi touch options,
Key Features • Real-time 3D broadcast quality graphics with live
menu & other tools for building complex interactive
• Add instances to your scene video inputs and key & fill output
scenes.
• Edit templates or forms on the go • Supports time-line based audio playback
• Drag & Drop media assets from Asset eXchange • User-friendly interface that allows easy control of
• Preview content as you go on-air graphics by third party applications WASPi Mimosa has the following options in the
• On-air updating of content runtime:
• Easy integration with production/ newsroom
automation systems Camera Options: This allows the user to move the
viewing camera to zoom, pan or rotate across the
scene.

WASP ASSET EXCHANGE

Object Actions: These are various actions which can be done on individual items in the scene. These include translation,
rotation or scaling operations. When designing the scene in the WASP3D Drone Designer, the designer can lock objects to
not animate at all or can specify only the operations permitted on an object. These locks can also be applied on individual
Manage & Distribute Media Assets X, Y or Z axis.
Gestures: The user can perform a custom action like changing the viewing angle of the entire scene or get some data
The WASP Asset eXchange (WAX) is a tool designed for sharing, managing and distribution of media assets (digital from a database and update the user interface.
photographs, animations, graphics, videos, text and music etc.) across local and remote locations. The eXchange can
Drawing: Create various pens, highlighters, arrows, ellipses and rectangles for telestration purposes.
easily integrate with most of the newsroom systems allowing the user to access images and graphics elements; quickly
create graphics using templates and then drag and drop them into the news rundown. The exchange provides users the
flexibility to search for assets based on metadata and comes with a thumbnail view of media assets for enhanced pictorial
view and easy navigation.
Key Features:
Key Features & Benefits • Touch screen application for anchor based non-linear presentation
• Centralized repository for anywhere, anytime access of media assets across the network • Built-in predefined gestures that can be assigned to any scene object
• Asset sharing, management and distribution across the network and/or within the group • Virtually zero coding required for basic data graphics
• Flexibility to group locations based on geographies etc. • Pan, zoom or rotate across the current scene.
• Keyword, date & user-defined search • Equipped with inbuilt telestration tools (arrows, eclipses, highlighters etc.)
• Drag-drop media to WASP3D modules • Scale, rotate or translate objects inside the current scene in all three dimensions.
• Information available 24 x 7 through online storage
• Recognize gestures (tablet PC one's) and propagate this to the engine to
• Supports almost all file formats like TARGA, BMP, JPEG, PNG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, IMX, DV25, DV50, DVCPro, AVI, MOV,
perform pre-defined actions.
WMV, Quicktime, AI, SWF, H.264 to name a few.
• Reduced Administration: Easy project management through use of configurable workflow tools to track jobs, • Customizable UI to allow users to add or remove functionality in the application
requests and media. using application level addins.
• Better time management: Search, locate and transfer content across multiple creation, editing and playout systems • Scene addins allow data-binding to a data source and dynamic updates while
seamlessly. the scene is on air.