Space Garden Meditations released

Imaja announces the release of Space Garden Meditations™, a new package of animation plug-ins and screen saver animations for the Macintosh.

Space Garden Meditations features over 50 animations, more than 5 hours of composed animations, each with many surprising semi-random elements that vary shapes, shape distribution, and color patterns on each replay.

A virtual garden of computer-generated plant shapes, spirals and cloth patterns fill the screen with rich layers of organic form and brilliant color.

Space Garden Meditations features over 50 animations, more than 5 hours of composed animations, each with many surprising semi-random elements that vary shapes, shape distribution, and color patterns on each replay.

There are over 25 plug-in modules that can be used with Bliss Paint as well as with Bliss Saver, including ferns, palms, clover, water lillies, trees, flowers, spiral weave, pearl vortex, and more.

Imaja's innovative color synthesizer flows new colors into the animations in endless combinations: blends, stripes, fades, pastels, deep tones, and incredibly saturated bright colors. The color synthesizer can be controlled from the Macintosh keyboard, every key corresponding to a color or color change method. Color effects can also be triggered in real time with a MIDI synthesizer keyboard, or from sound input from a stereo or microphone or an audio CD in the computer's CD-ROM drive.

Animations can repeat continuously, or play in alphabetical order or random order. Snapshots may be saved as PICT files for use in other applications. Animations from any other Bliss packages can also be included in the mix.

Space Garden Meditations includes the latest version of Imaja's Bliss Saver screen saver application. The result is a stand-alone package which can be viewed as animations and used as a screen saver.

As plug-ins for Imaja's innovative Bliss Paint animation software, Space Garden Meditations provides radically new shapes to work with in animation and live performance. Bliss Paint provides a specialized system for producing rich abstract color animations for live performance, QuickTime movies and video production. When Bliss Paint 2.0 is released, each Space Garden plug-in will reveal a set of new controls for composing new variations in animation form and behaviour.

Space Garden Meditations has a complete on-line manual with hypertext links and a Find command, making it easy to locate information. Extensive information is available through the Imaja web site, and Imaja provides free technical support via e-mail and telephone.

The Bliss Saver engine has the standard screen saver features: user controlled delay time, activate and don't activate corners, and password protection. Bliss Saver is an application, not an extension or control panel, so system software conflicts are minimized. You can quit it at any time to release memory back to the system.

Space Garden Meditations requires 256-color video (8 bit), System 6.0.7, System 7 or Mac OS 8. The PowerPC-native Bliss Saver screen saver application is included. A 68K version of Bliss Saver is available on request.

Space Garden Meditations is available now for $49.95 from Imaja. Site license pricing is available on request.

Space Garden Meditations is available now for $49.95 from Imaja. Site license pricing is available on request.

Note: Sample snap-shots are displayed at the Space Garden Meditation page: http://www.imaja.com/sgm. EPS files for publication can be found at Imaja's Publication Resources page, or can be delivered on request.

Space Garden Meditations, Bliss Paint and Bliss Saver are trademarks of Imaja. Macintosh and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc.

Imaja also publishes a line of graphics, educational, and music software. For more information, see Imaja’s web site at http://www.imaja.com.

Contact: Greg Jalbert

Imaja
1244 Hearst Ave. #7
Berkeley, CA 94704 USA

Tel:
(510) 526-4621
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Web: www.imaja.com

Date: May 18, 1998