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interactive on-surface signal deformation

By lesterbanks | Published: May 22, 2010

Tweet Tobias Ritschel, Thorsten Thormählen, Carsten Dachsbacher, Jan Kautz and Hans-Peter Seidel present an interactive system for the artistic control of visual phenomena visible on surfaces. The method allows the user to intuitively reposition shadows, caustics, and indirect illumination using a simple click-and-drag user interface working directly on surfaces. In contrast to previous approaches, the [...]

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frankencamera platform for computational photography

By lesterbanks | Published: May 17, 2010

Tweet I have been wondering why there is no such thing really as an open source camera where the camera would be able to do all kids of wonderful things while taking a picture, or after taking a picture. This thought process stemmed from my attempt to find a “lomo” style digital camera, when all [...]

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the visually stunning game that is “limbo”

By lesterbanks | Published: May 14, 2010

Tweet There has been quite a bit of hype over Limbo a game in development by Play Dead an independent game studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A lot of hype with some good reason, it is nothing short of stunning! To find out more, you can read an interview with the CEO of PlayDead, Dino Patti on [...]

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how to build your own render farm

By lesterbanks | Published: May 14, 2010

Tweet Tom’s hardware guide with an older post on how to build your own render farm, I like how the article starts out by asking “do you need your own render farm?” pffft who doesn’t?

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intro to pixel bender a tutorial for Non-Programmers

By lesterbanks | Published: May 6, 2010

Tweet Satya Meka demonstrates a great introduction to pixel bender in this tutorial that geared towards after effects users. “This is a tutorial I created long time ago, but never had a chance to post it. This is a theoretical introduction to Pixel Bender to many non-programmers out there like me, who have no prior [...]

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google buys bumptop, 3d technology

By lesterbanks | Published: May 3, 2010

Tweet Google has acquired Bumptop a slick little application for turing your desktop into a 3d environment where you can navigate through 3d space to manage and find files. For more information and what it means for the technology, check out the BumpTop page, an article at TechCrunch, and of course the article at Mashable.

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3D data visualization

By lesterbanks | Published: May 1, 2010

Tweet Construction of a folderstructure. The radial adjustment of folders an the y-direction arrangement of files gives the opportunity to visualize any amount of data. The coloring depends on the filetype and it differs between pictures, music and video, system, documents and alternative formats. Project Partner: Anja Rapp 3D Datavisualization from bburgmaier on Vimeo.

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photoline 64bit image processing updates

By lesterbanks | Published: April 30, 2010

Tweet Photoline, an independent low cost image processing application reaches version 16 which sports a new user interface, adjustment layers panel, liquify tool, morph vector layers, ghostscript import, and has been 64bit for a few versions now. Check out a trial version for windows, or mac osx.

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using automator to change image type

By lesterbanks | Published: April 15, 2010

Tweet Andy Dykstra shows us how to use a MacOs Automator workflow to change multiple files’ image type quickly. This would also work great for re-naming image sequences when I find myself outputting name.#.Extension from Maya, and then realizing some applications will not import sequences with two periods in the filename. Automator Change Image Type [...]

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adobe story, onLocation CS5 workflow

By lesterbanks | Published: April 15, 2010

Tweet What a great example of the workflow between the online application Adobe Story, and the new Adobe OnLocation CS5, and Adobe Premier CS5… This rocks actually. Adobe Story is a collaborative script development tool (which Adobe bought as buzzword a while back), that introduces innovative ways to accelerate the process of turning screenplays into [...]

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