Category Archives: computers

Tweet Beautiful Modeler, a software tool for gestural sculpting using the iPad as a multi touch controller, where each finger can be used to control a touchpoint in the model, and moving and tilting the iPad can change the view angle of the model on the computer… pretty snazzy stuff! Created by Karl D.D. Willis Beautiful Modeler [...]

Tweet The soon to be released Axsotic 3D sheric mouse, represents a new way of interfacing with 3D applications. The issue now becomes that scene manipulations such as tumbling, zooming and rotating all require direct mouse interactions, so lets say if you have a tool to cut a poly face and you are actually cutting [...]

Tweet The Ilmenau University of Technology, Department of Virtual Worlds call it “Diminished Reality” – they are able to remove objects from live video in realtime… almost like a content-aware fill that happens instantly over all frames! crazy. Read more at PopSci. “The Diminished reality technology is done in two steps: First, the object to be [...]

Tweet Love or hate the iPad, there has always been a case for getting rid of the mouse going back to practically the time when the mouse was invented. Some things are just more intuitive by using your hands and fingers, like swiping to turn a page, and two fingers to rotate. We have seen [...]

Tweet A research group at Waseda University have been working on technology to create 3D face models quickly from photographs taken from ordinary cameras, actually, the system generates fairly accurate 3D models from a single photograph by using feature point facial analysis techniques and relating them back to a database of over 1000 3D face [...]

Tweet Dave Girard returns with part two of his multi-part in-depth article called an intro to 3D on the mac. Part 2 covers an overview animation and rendering. Thanks Dave, I have been waiting for the next instalment! If you wish to get caught-up, you can by reading part 1 here.

Tweet A raytracing demo using Intel’s Sandy Bridge chips with four Intel WestmereEX processors, each with 10 cores hyper-threading enabled… thats 20 cores total per proc. Here they are raytracing a scene using Keyshot, a realtime raytracing application that uses purely cpu for global illumination solutions.