IMAX Corporation

Porting Theatre Geometry Software

IMAX engaged Generated Solutions to port their custom theatre geometry toolset from SGI workstations to Microsoft Windows. These theatre geometry tools were developed over time at IMAX and were used to help design both theatre screen geometry and the related materials used to construct the screens, given their various optical properties.

The porting process involved converting from a custom GUI framework to Microsoft’s MFC framework and enhancing the tools with new optical algorithms, developed by IMAX physicists.