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The company ask - Innovative Visualisierungslösungen GmbH (askvisual.de) based in Darmstadt, Germany develops and owns the weather visualisation software “TriVis Weather Graphix”. This software is in daily use world-wide at national and private weather services and at national and private broadcasters and creates appealing and accurate weather graphics content from different meteorological data for all media.

TriVis is the most powerful graphics solution for the visualisation of meteorological data - across all digital media platforms. Our software ensures the cost-effective and flexible production of weather content. Incorporating the latest 3D computer graphics, TriVis meets all the demands of a vast range of production environments. It can illustrate any weather situation imaginable - in either 2D or 3D. TriVis can generate a wide variety of output formats - from still pictures, through dynamic animations to complete moving sequences. It supports many different datasets and forecast models from a wide range of meteorological services. Interactive captions, symbols and even animated meteorological frontal systems can be visualised quickly and easily. TriVis is your easy-to-use, professional tool for creating sophisticated weather output.

Features

• FLEXIBILITY Flexible interactive creation or adaptation of content. TriVis meets the requirements of the fast-moving worlds of news and weather – and can support immediate reaction to globally significant weather situations.
• QUALITY Content produced with TriVis is premium broadcast quality in HD, 4K and beyond. 3D scenes are always fully anti-aliased. Accurate 4-channel play-out with fill and key synchronization is supported.
• INTERACTIVITY TriVis offers a fully interactive touchscreen solution and play-out module. The presenter has full control at all times during a weather presentation.
• RELIABILITY Our legendary TriVis reliability has been keeping TV stations and weather services worldwide on air for over 30 years. Our customers benefit from interactive storytelling and efficient, unattended 24/7 automated production.
• EASE-OF-USE TriVis is very easy to use for meteorologists, designers and administrators. Template based creation and management of content and timelines with convenient and quick data editing and storytelling is available for novice and advanced users.