NOVA Infinity is PC cluster-based multi-channel visualization software that supports VRML/X3D based real time 3D graphics, windows DirectX based movie files and various formats of still image files.

Typically, NOVA Infinity is used for large projector-based display systems where the PC cluster approach to large display solutions has many strong points in cost, efficiency and resolution. For example, if one wants to make a display with a 20 meter diagonal using a single 10,000 ANSI lumen projector, the distance between the screen and projector is about 20 meters with a short focus lens and the image brightness is reduced to approximately 25 lux. Alternatively, you could use nine projectors of 2,000 ANSI Lumens and reduce the projection distance to about six meters to create a display of the same size. The cost of the projectors will be less, the brightness of the image on the screen will be twice as high (circa 55 lux) and the resolution of the display will be at least three times higher than using a single 10,000 lumen projector.

NOVA Infinity provides an efficient and intuitive user interface that makes implementation of very large displays simple and is the ideal choice for customers that want to use affordable projectors and PCs for visualizing multi-media contents. NOVA Infinity systems are composed of a master and x slaves where x corresponds to the number of projectors that are to be used. The master module is used to manage the slave cluster and to operate the large display. The contents to be displayed are managed in the master computer. For example, if the content that is displayed is real time 3D graphics, the user navigates in the rendering window of the master computer with the scene changes automatically applied to the slaves in the cluster.

NOVA Infinity is generally supplied and integrated with NOVA NoGrid.
NOVA NoGrid provides color correction capabilities for calibrating the irregular color across the multiple projectors, and non-linear distortion correction capability for calibrating the distorted image caused by the shape of screen and the position of the projectors. It also includes edge-blending capability for removing the seams between the projectors. Using the two elements together allows the creation of seamless, distortion-corrected, fully color-balanced displays of virtually any size imaginable.

A major advantage of NOVA for data-intensive applications is that it uses a slave/master system. The master just sends camera position, orientation, time stamp and mouse/keyboard event and the slaves receive the data, rendering their own viewport by themselves. Most other similar software packages use client/server systems to send image data which means that the overall network data that is being used increases by a geometric progression depending on the number of slaves, with the result that frame rate is severely decreased.

NOVA Infinity has a plug-in architecture and several SDKs are available as options.

All three SDKs bind to C/C++ and support both Win32 and MFC.