 Two years in the making and the result of many, many people's hard work, Google SketchUp 7 has arrived.
SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models of anything: your house, killer robots, furniture, trees, abstract art — anything. Architects and engineers use it to design buildings and other structures. Woodworkers use it to plan their projects. And lots of people use it to figure out where to put their furniture. SketchUp is easy to learn, it comes in free and Pro versions, and it's more fun than a houseful of clowns. Oh, and you can use it to build models for Google Earth, too.
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 Intel Corporation introduced its most advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel® Core™ i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput. The Core i7 processor speeds video editing, immersive games and other popular Internet and computer activities by up to 40 percent without increasing power consumption.
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 Ведущая школа компьютерной графики в России RealTime School и крупнейший производитель графических процессоров для развлечений, профессионального дизайна и визуализации компания NVIDIA объявляют конкурс: "Snow Show" '08.
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Главный приз - графический ускоритель Quadro FX 1500 от генерального спонсора вечеринки 2D|3D Party 2008 компании NVIDIA.
Победитель конкурса "Snow Show" будет объявлен на вечеринке 2D|3D Party 2008, которая пройдет в ночь со 2 на 3 декабря в развлекательном комплексе "Самолет".
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 В этом году корпорация Intel отметила сороковую годовщину своей деятельности. Фактически заново изобретя транзистор еще на заре своей деятельности, в 2008 г. корпорация Intel представила широкий ассортимент новой продукции, а также достигла новых рубежей в областях исследований и разработок, охраны окружающей среды и совершенствовании своей организационной структуры. Кроме продуктов, предназначенных для ноутбуков, ПК и серверов – традиционных для Intel сегментов, – корпорация начала выпуск микросхем и внедрила ряд технологий, предназначенных для новых сегментов рынка и быстро развивающихся высокотехнологичных областей.
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 Thanks to Google and the Rome Reborn Project, everyone in the world, from Rome itself to Calcutta, can now travel through time and discover Ancient Rome as it was 1,688 years ago when it was ruled by Emperor Constantine.
The project includes more than 6,700 buildings of Ancient Rome rebuilt in 3D — a true record. This accomplishment demonstrates how technology can be helpful in promoting culture and disseminating knowledge. Ancient Rome 3D is a great opportunity to rediscover the importance of Ancient Roman culture, which is at the base of the Italian, European and, more generally, Western identities.
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 Attendees of the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, held in Los Angeles this week, will have the opportunity to experience the visual enhancements coming in Windows 7 in part due to the close collaboration between Microsoft and NVIDIA. As a leader in visual computing, NVIDIA has been working closely with Microsoft on technology elements that will help to enrich users’ experience with Windows 7, specifically in areas such as photos, video, gaming and 3D graphics.
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 VizUp is designed specially for game developers, architects, and 3D designers. With this software in place, they get a pain-free way to reduce polygons and optimize 3D models, and presentations before publishing them on the Web. Also, VizUp simplifies LOD generation for games and virtual reality. The best thing about this software is that it saves you from time-consuming routine operations and lets you put your energy into creativity. The product has a "Fast reduction" option to let you optimize 3D models quickly and effectively select the necessary level of reduction for many models. The learning curve is minimal, so you can start your first polygon compression project in a few minutes.
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 Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Autodesk to acquire substantially all of the assets of Avid’s Softimage business unit for approximately $35 million.
Softimage was founded in 1986 by Daniel Langlois and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Softimage develops 3D technology for the film, television and games markets. Its flagship product is SOFTIMAGE|XSI, an extensible 3D animation software solution used by leading media and entertainment companies, including Digital Domain, Ubisoft, SEGA Corporation, CAPCOM, Animal Logic and The Mill.
Autodesk Media & Entertainment provides animation, visual effects, editing/finishing and color grading solutions for the 3D market, including entertainment and design industries.Be first to comment this article | Views: 585 |
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Спрос на повышенную скорость визуальных вычислений продолжает расти по мере роста количества приложений, использующих мощь параллельных вычислений графического процессора не только для обработки графики. Геймерам, энтузиастам видео решений, дизайнерам и творческим профессионалам, которым необходимы оптимизированные ПК, графический процессор NVIDIA GeForce® 9400M предлагает пятикратный рост производительности в интегрированной логике для современных привлекательных корпусов ноутбуков.
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 Blender 2.48 includes all the work done on the Blender Game Engine and the Apricot Open Game "Yo Frankie!", with much better functioning game logic editing, character animation, and Blender Material based real-time shaders. And as last minute surprise a Bullet physics update with Softbody support.
Also in this release; Windows 64 bits support, Grease Pencil for sketching annotations, Sun/Sky/Atmosphere rendering, new modifiers, and an improved text editor with Python API support. And last but not least, an enormous list of open bug reports were handled.
Blender 2.48a update: A couple of important bugfixes has been done in Blender since the release, especially for using the Game Engine and GLSL.
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 Today Chaos Software and Asynthetic Ltd. announced the immediate availability of Pdplayer 1.0.1.10 Trial DEMO, a software tool for image sequence playback, review and manipulation. Bulgaria based company Asynthetic Ltd., developers of Pdplayer, have been working closely with the team of Chaos Software for more than 2 years, integrating and testing the product as part of production pipelines at major content creation studios across the world.
What's new in Pdplayer 1.0.1.10: improved network load speed for TGA, SGI and JPEG images; better RPF depth channel range estimation; menu.py should now work on Win64, and with Nuke 5.1.
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Компания NVIDIA представила сегодня свой новый ускоритель Quadro CX, разработанный специально для программного комплекса Adobe Creative Suite 4. Новый графический процессор открывает профессионалам в области креативных разработок новые горизонты надежности, скорости и совершенствования своего творчества. Quadro CX создан обеспечить наивысшую производительность в новых GPU-оптимизированных опциях программного пакета Adobe Creative Suite 4.
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 PipelineFX, makers of Qube!, the leading render farm management software for film and post production, game development, and digital media education around the world, today announced that it has released updates and enhancements to Qube! interfaces to several leading digital media applications.
Updates available for 3ds Max 2009, Vue, Rhino 3d, AfterEffects CS4 and Mayaman.
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 Simple, easy to use, powerful, based on the latest hardware and software technologies, fully integrated in 3ds Max and Viz, compatible with all the 3D software that can export to the Collada format, Nova is a Real Time 3D engine which allows to display high quality virtual scenes. As in a video game, it allows you to get into its virtual environment in order to discover it or to interact with its content.
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 Horde3D is a small open source 3D rendering engine. It is written in an effort to create a graphics engine that offers the stunning visual effects expected in next-generation games while at the same time being as lightweight and conceptually clean as possible. Horde3D has a simple and intuitive interface accessible from virtually any programming language and is particularly suitable for rendering large crowds of animated characters in next-generation quality.
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