Adobe Atmosphere
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| Developer(s) | Adobe Systems |
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| Initial release | March 26, 2001 |
| Last release |
Builder 1.0.0.198 (October 31, 2003) |
| Development status | Discontinued |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | English |
| Type | 3D computer graphics |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | adobe |
| Developer(s) | Adobe Systems |
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| Last release |
1.0 / January 2, 2002
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| Development status | Discontinued |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Web server |
| License | Adobe Atmosphere Server Software Open Source License Agreement |
Builder 1.0.0.198 (October 31, 2003)
Adobe Atmosphere (informally abbreviated Atmo) was a software platform for interacting with 3D computer graphics. 3D models created with the commercial program could be explored socially using a browser plugin available free of charge. Atmosphere was originally developed by Attitude Software as 3D Anarchy and was later bought by Adobe Systems. The product spent the majority of its lifetime in beta testing. Adobe released the last version of Atmosphere, version 1.0 build 216, in February 2004, then discontinued the software in December that year.
Atmosphere focused on explorable "worlds" (later officially called "environments"), which were linked together by "portals", analogous to the World Wide Web's hyperlinks. These portals were represented as spinning squares of red, green, and blue that revolved around each other and floated above the ground. Portals were indicative of the Atmosphere team's desire to mirror the functionality of Web pages. Although the world itself was described in the .aer (or .atmo) file, images and sounds were kept separately, usually in the GIF, WAV or MP3 format. Objects in worlds were scriptable using a specialized dialect of JavaScript, allowing a more immersive environment, and worlds could be generated dynamically using PHP. Using JavaScript, a world author could link an object to a Web page, so that a user could, for example, launch a Web page by clicking on a billboard advertisement (Ctrl+Shift+Click in earlier versions). By version 1.0, Atmosphere also boasted support for using Macromedia Flash animations and Windows Media Video as textures.
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