It includes drawing tools and digital watermarking for embedding copyright information, and new special effects, such as bevel, weave, and blinds.

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Until now, Viewpoint's strategy has been to place itself at the bottom of the feeding chain: film studios and special-effects houses customise its models before Steven Spielberg and his ilk weave them into their story lines.

ECONOMIST: Three-dimensional imaging