The machineworksbyrotating the cellunder themicroscopelens and takinghundreds ofpicturesperrotation, and thendigitallycombiningthem to forma single 3-dimage.
Marsh projects that the JPMorgan deal will help boost the number of digital screens (3-D movies are only shown digitally) to 3, 750 by the end of the year and 8, 000 by the end of 2010.
For the midsize customer there are new computer programs for 3-D design and order entry that digitally link Herman Miller, the supplier, the distributor and the customer, and make transactions speedy and reliable.
The power to make rapid, wholesale modifications in 3-D rested mostly with big architectural firms or companies the size of Boeing, which designed its entire 777 digitally using Dassault's Catia software.