About Dynamic Graphics
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Dynamic Graphics, Inc. partners with our clients to solve spatial analysis problems in the petroleum, environmental, and earth-related sciences. Over the past three decades, we have been the premier provider of geospatial solutions with our innovative, easy-to-use software and outstanding support services.
Our EarthVision software is designed to meet clients' practical application needs, industry standards, and our own stringent quality-control requirements. Each product is thoroughly tested and documented prior to release. We provide a complete spectrum of regularly scheduled and customized training courses prepared by our full-time educational services staff. Once our products are in use at a client site, our technical support personnel are available to offer their expertise and to answer any questions that may arise.
In today's fast-changing business environment, Dynamic Graphics believes that the key to success is to offer a variety of products and services designed to address a wide range of clients' needs. Our software can be licensed on a perpetual basis, as an annual lease, or on a client-determined flexible rental schedule. Our EarthVision Solution Projects are also available for data consulting services on a contract basis for clients with intermittent project needs or limited modeling expertise or resources.
Dynamic Graphics is committed to responding to the challenges our clients face in their day-to-day work. We know that the continued success of our company depends upon developing innovative, reliable, easy-to-use software, while offering strategic support services that help our clients solve the demanding, time-sensitive problems that significantly impact their business.
Our History, Our Future
Founded in 1969, Dynamic Graphics initially developed custom programs
for corporate sponsors. During this early period, we designed FORTRAN-based software tools that produced two-dimensional
models and maps from randomly distributed data, using a proprietary minimum
tension gridding algorithm. These programs were released in 1974 as commercial
products: the Surface Gridding Library™ (SGL) and Surface Display Library™ (SDL). 
As Dynamic Graphics' user community grew, it became apparent that an easy-to-use, quickly learned interface would enable scientists to use our products directly, rather than working through an intermediary. In addition, the level of complexity of spatial problems had grown as the interaction of a number of surfaces became important. To address these issues, Dynamic Graphics released its Interactive Surface Modeling™ (ISM) program in 1982.
By the late 1980s, the complexity of mapping applications had increased as new types of data became readily available. True three-dimensional data were frequently analyzed using traditional two-dimensional techniques, resulting in a loss in accuracy and comprehension. In response, Dynamic Graphics released its Interactive Volume Modeling™ (IVM) program, which expanded its proprietary gridding routines to model data in space and offered revolutionary visualization of isosurfaces. IVM was followed in 1992 by our Geological Modeling Program™ (GMP) that utilized a geological context during property modeling.
After extensive research, Dynamic Graphics developed a new product family
that incorporated an industry standard graphic interface into its existing
suite of interactive products, significantly improved product integration,
and added new functionality. Our current EarthVision® product suite
made its debut in 1992. 
Since then, our research and development program has focused on providing analysis and visualization of highly complex geologic environments. With the release of the EarthVision Geologic Structure Builder™ (GSB) in 1993, Dynamic Graphics introduced the most accurate, integrated model builder of complex overturned, faulted, and reverse faulted geologic and property geometries available on the market. Our high performance EarthVision 5, released in 1998, included The WorkFlow Manager™ (with streamlined, user-friendly operations for even the occasional user), and geosteering tools to track drill bit progress using the precise 3D Viewer. In 1999, synchronized viewing of models, data, and well paths opened communication between the office and the drill site. EarthVision 6, released in 2001 on Linux®, Windows® 2000, and UNIX®, offers advanced geometrically-reconstructed property and horizon gridding, along with seismic import and interactive display.
Now, with the 2002 release of EarthVision 7.0, well path design can be handled quickly and easily. Using a 3D model, target locations, and 3D offset wells for reference, the Well Path Designer allows multiple section types to be specified via a spread sheet or interactively via the 3D Viewer. EarthVision 7.0 incorportated new easier time-to-depth conversion into the WorkFlow Manager.
Dynamic Graphics' success in the future will be fueled by the needs and ideas of its clients, just as the company's growth and product development have been throughout its history. Backed by strong client partnerships, Dynamic Graphics is well positioned to capitalize on the current trend of more intensive high technology application in the petroleum, environmental, and earth-related sciences, ensuring the company's leading role as a geospatial software solutions provider far into the next century.
EarthVision
The Dynamic Graphics EarthVision product family provides new insights
into complex data relationships, eliminates inconsistent analysis results,
and generates mapping products in a fraction of the time previously required.
With EarthVision, geoscientists can analyze data, surfaces, geologic structures,
and property volumes (including porosity, temperature, and contaminant
concentration) in their true three-dimensional spatial context. This disparate
data can then be combined in an integrated three-dimensional model that
provides new insights into the complex relationships in the data and eliminates
the inconsistent results that have plagued scientists in the 
past
when analyzing a series of independent models. In addition to producing
shaded or full color, three-dimensional graphics, EarthVision can also
generates highly accurate traditional mapping products, including base
and contour maps, cross sections, and fence diagrams, in a tenth of the
time previously required. To meet the industry's growing need for PC-based
systems, EarthVision has expanded from a UNIX-based platform to include
Windows 2000 and Linux platforms.
Our Scope
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area in Alameda, California, Dynamic Graphics, Inc. has a growing global presence. With aU.S. regional office in the Houston area, the company also maintains international offices and/or representatives in France, Switzerland, South America, Southeast Asia and Kuwait. Dynamic Graphics Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dynamic Graphics located in the greater London area, serves clients in Europe.
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