Tweet This week, and the NAB show, Blackmagic surprised with the release of the new DaVinci Resolve 7.0 for the Mac OS X. Sporting an upgraded user interface, better video field support, new EDL library, improved shared database support, as well as a very affordable $995 for the Macintosh version. Read more about it on [...]
Tweet FxGuide has a post with new details on The Foundry’s new product for RED workflow, Storm. The Foundry’s Storm won’t be in release for a few months, but FXguide uncovers an exclusive look at the product while at NAB.
Tweet As I watched this I was a) amazed at the direction that computer graphics were taking in terms of the simplicity behind the use of the tools that sit in front of what must be some insane math, and b) do we really need this level of automation for this particular task… Can’t we [...]
Tweet Finding Approximately Repeated Scene Elements for Image Editing is a white paper by Ming-Ming Cheng, Fang-Lue Zhang, Niloy J. Mitra, Xiaolei Huang, Shi-Min Hu in which a process is employed to edit repeating elements in a scene procedurally. From the demonstration video, the system goes as far as having a procedural answer for missing [...]
Tweet Lormalized, a nifty application that was built with processing is a little fun to play with, try it out here. LORMALIZED from Reza on Vimeo. LORMALIZED = Lorenz + nOrmalization + Real-tiMe + interActive + visuaLize + partIcles + reZa + procEssing.org + 4D This visual piece was made using algorithmic composition. It runs [...]
Tweet Check out Sketchpad for the iPad, where you can draw vector shapes with just your fingers. You can just draw with your fingers, it’s that simple. Sketchpad is designed to look as a sketch book and can be treated as such; draw with your fingers and swipe left and right to flip pages. Sketchpad [...]
Tweet OpenRL™ is the world’s first cross platform, heterogeneous API for ray tracing. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, and will identify and take advantage of CPUs, GPUs, and custom hardware devices all simultaneously. Ray tracing application developers can download and evaluate OpenRL free-of-charge from our website. OpenRL™ Heterogeneous Computing Example from [...]
Tweet Harry Storbacka’s Digital Artist is a 2D digital painting application for Windows XP, Vista and 7 with built in support for 3 point perspective. Whats more, HSDA is free for non-commercial use and the full version can be downloaded from Harry Storbacka’s site.
Tweet People are starting to finally get it. During a preview of Microsoft’s annual TechFest event this week, the company’s researchers showed a technology dubbed Project Gustav, which attempts to replicate the experience of painting without all the mess. Project Gustav is a realistic painting-system prototype that enables artists to become immersed in the digital [...]
Tweet Or at least that’s what Eric Brasseur is saying – “There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms. All software tested (August 2007) had the problem: The Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, CinePaint, Nip2, ImageMagick, GQview, Eye of Gnome, Paint and Krita. Also three different operating systems were used: Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.” He [...]
