The very first online public disclosure of 3D Car – the innovative 3D Car Configurator from Bluemind Software.
Founded in 2004, Bluemind Software is a SME (micro enterprise) in the software development field. The company’s mission is to bring its contribution to the world through innovative and useful software products and through quality custom software development services.
Bluemind Software possesses good experience in developing 3D applications, CAD/CAM systems, engineering software, scientific software, multimedia applications, applications that combine desktop and web environments and others.
Applications like 3DCar, an interactive 3D car configurator, started in 2005 (on display at SIAB 2007), at a time when even decent 2D car configurators were scarce, show the company’s innovative side.
Bluemind Software also benefits of good understanding of research activities and proper communication and collaboration with the academic environment (the owner holds a Dr. title himself). The company is part of a research consortium, through which they participate in European research projects.
The website development services comply with the standard specifications(ISO/IEC 15445, XHTML, CSS etc.) for high quality.
3DCar is the innovative, fully interactive, car configurator developed by Bluemind Software (started in 2005, when even 2D configurators were rare).
It certainly was at least one of the first, if not the very first, configurator in which the user can interact with the car.
Unlike other products released in this niche, 3DCar works very well even on 5-6 year old PCs using complex 3D models with over 1 million triangles.
Customer demand brought us to the point where, with each passing year, automobile manufacturers increase the individual and extra options offered for their models.
Nowadays, the utility of car configurators is well known. They support the sales process and lead the customer from the Internet to the dealership and have a great contribution to the manufacturers and their worldwide dealers.
The idea of a 3D car configurator came to our general manager, Dr. Eng. Bogdan DEAKY, in 2005, when even 2D configurators were scarce. Inspired by earlier involvement in CAD/CAM systems development, he did imagine a 3D software system by means of which the user could immerse himself in an interactive world where he could both personalize the dream-car and interact with it.
Effective development of 3DCar started only in the fall of 2006, when needed resources and knowledge were sufficient, but not before conducting research related to the best suitable technology. This allowed introducing the maximum of innovating features, while making them available to a wide user spectrum.
The models displayed in the 3D View have optimized loading time once they are downloaded (recently the loading time was reduced from 40 seconds to maximum 5 seconds by means of tool and algorithm optimization). 3DCar is a flexible system which allows easy implementation of new models, thus reducing the costs on the software part. Also, we permanently work on finding means to improve the appearance of the models while keeping system requirements low.
I believe that this application can really help the clients to visualize their dream car, from exterior to interior. With 3DCar, the client has the possibility to choose from different existing models the one he wishes for. I can hardly wait to have this 3DCar configurator in our showroom on plasma screen! “
Cosmin Nicolescu – Mercedes Benz sales specialist
This is a screen capture of an interactive 3D car configurator for a Porsche Carrera GT – you change it’s colour, interior and more provided by the other 3D provider:
