High-performance 3D Visualization and Computing Software for Oil & Gas

VSG’s high-end software solutions range from 3D components for application developers (Open Inventor® by VSG) to advanced 3D visualization framework (Avizo®), offering an extensive set of technologies and tools for exploring very large seismic, geology, reservoir engineering, and petrography datasets.

3D Components for Application Developers

Open Inventor® by VSG is an object-oriented, cross-platform 3D graphics toolkit for the development of industrial-strength interactive applications using C++, .NET or Java. Open Inventor® by VSG provides the power and functionality of OpenGL® at an object- oriented level. Its easy-to-use API, its extensible architecture, and its large set of advanced components provide developers with a high-level platform for rapid prototyping and development of 3D graphics applications.

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Volume Visualization

Open Inventor® and VolumeViz are revolutionary 3D visualization developer solutions to expand the frontiers of understanding for massive seismic data volumes (greater than several 100 GBs). Unprecedented rendering quality is available through the use of programmable shaders and direct GPU-based rendering. Multi data support, such as data combining and transforming, can also be used to assist in understanding the true meaning of your data.

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GPU Computing

The combination of the revolutionary performance of CUDA™ with the integration capabilities of the Open Inventor 3D API provides application developers with infinite possibilities for massive dynamic or static computation capabilities on seismic data with simultaneous 3D visualization feedback, leveraging the latest graphic board solutions to perform intensive parallel computation on the workstation.

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Scalability and Immersive Environments

ScaleViz enables transparent scalability of Open Inventor® and VolumeViz for increased resolution, quality, and performance in applications that display large volumes of data. Moreover, ScaleViz manages features such as image combining and compositing, extensions for immersive VR rooms as well as an innovative remote application solution for interactively visualizing hundreds of gigabytes of seismic data or millions of cells reservoir models on a distant laptop computer.

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Avizo Earth Edition: the Desktop Visualization Framework

The Avizo® Earth Edition software is a multi-discipline project review solution for accessing and visualizing 3D multidimensional information (seismic, horizon, reservoir, wells, and others…) in geophysics, geology, reservoir engineering, and petrography. Avizo Earth manages complex information, large amounts of volume data, and multi-modality data sets, with fast data loading and interactive response even on low-end hardware. Avizo Earth also provides an extensible architecture, where you can create new data readers and custom data views, and integrate processing algorithms.

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Avizo Fire Edition for Core Sample Analysis

The Avizo® Fire Edition can be used as a unification tool for a wide range of analysis on core sample datasets for various sizes and resolutions, such as full size cores, samples, plugs, and small cubes.

Avizo Fire easily integrates into the following workflows:

  • Visualization of core samples from 2D cuts to 3D volume
  • Dip and strike analysis, fracture network analysis
  • Particles and phases characterization and quantification
  • Reconstruction of 3D rock models, quality control
  • Petrophysical analysis for porosity, wettability, permeability...
  • Pore network modeling
  • Flow simulations

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