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  • Importing Excel Data

    Civil 3D Reminders
    Christopher Fugitt
    24 Jan 2012 | 1:19 pm
    With all of the new features that come out, sometimes it’s hard to catch what you may have missed in the past. In this video I’ll cover how copy and paste data from Excel into AutoCAD to get a table that prints nicely. Other methods such as printing to PDF or using an OLE image can come out blurry and not print well on the plans. this method alleviates this problem and provides a way to show the data using an AutoCAD table. That works great for single use, but what if you want a link between Excel and AutoCAD. Well That’s where Data Links come in handy. The video below goes through the…

  • Watch: Interview With Phil "Captain 3D" McNally Of Dreamworks Animation

    MarketSaw - 3D Movies, Gaming and Technology
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:29 pm
    Hey guys - here's an interesting watch! I've known Phil "Captain 3D" McNally (virtually at least!) since the very early days of MarketSaw and he has been a great asset to have to draw upon when... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • London Twitter Data as a Landscape

    Digital Urban
    Smithee
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:04 am
    Readers will know that as part of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation, here in CASA at, we are exploring new methods and techniques for visualising data. As part of the course we are looking at collecting data from the Twitter API and using the resulting .csv file as an input into a variety of software, including Processing and ArcMap. Data so far has been focused on displaying the output from ArcGIS as a slightly more traditional map, albeit in 3D via Lumion: Taking a step back it is possible to take a more abstract view of the data visualisation and use…

  • London's Twitter Island - From ArcGIS to Max to Lumion

    Digital Urban
    Smithee
    21 Jan 2012 | 4:32 am
    As part of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation, here in CASA at The Bartlett, University College London, we are exploring new methods and techniques for visualising data. As part of the course we are looking at collecting data from the Twitter API and using the resulting .csv file as an input into a variety of software, including Processing and ArcMap. One such known example is the London Twitter map by UrbanTick, developed using the data collector created by Steven Gray and imported by Fabian into ArcMap, it developed a style of its own as the 'NewCity Landscape'…

  • Pirate Bay Introduces Physical 3D Printed Object Download

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    Josh Mings
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Imagine a Record Executive going over to a 3D file sharing site downloading a pair of patent-protected headphones, laughing as he jiggles and listens to his DRM’ed music list. Ironic. You may think ‘big deal’ when you hear it, but thePirateBay.org, a site infamous for file-sharing and online piracy is making torrent-tearing waves with the announcement of ‘Physibles’ – a category for physical objects you can download and print. Is this a bad thing? The Future is a Pirate Bay 3D Printed Download Away… or Is It? The Physibles category on thePriateBay is,…
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  • Bradley Cooper: PARADISE LOST To Start Production In June?

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:48 pm
    Well finally some good news coming out of the PARADISE LOST news stream! Bradley Cooper, who has been attached to director Alex Proyas' performance capture project for some time now (to play Lucifer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Watch: Interview With Phil "Captain 3D" McNally Of Dreamworks Animation

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:29 pm
    Hey guys - here's an interesting watch! I've known Phil "Captain 3D" McNally (virtually at least!) since the very early days of MarketSaw and he has been a great asset to have to draw upon when... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • MUST WATCH: Behind The Scenes Of GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE!

    25 Jan 2012 | 3:44 pm
    Wow. My mouth was literally wide open when I saw the first wired action scene in this clip from GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE and I'm pretty sure yours will be too! I have NEVER heard of a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • The 84th Annual Academy Awards: Which Movies Are Up For O3DARS?

    24 Jan 2012 | 2:20 pm
    I've stripped away the 2D nominations to highlight which S3D features have been nominated. Clearly there are some huge disappointments in the announcement, not the least of which is the complete snub... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • 3D Geek Alert: AMC To Supply Podracer 3D Glasses, Darth Maul Face Painting And More!

    23 Jan 2012 | 5:10 pm
    Clearly some deep thought has gone into the marketing of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D by not only Lucasfilm but the AMC Theater chain. What's a pure STAR WARS fan truly want to remember... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
 
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  • London Twitter Data as a Landscape

    Smithee
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:04 am
    Readers will know that as part of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation, here in CASA at, we are exploring new methods and techniques for visualising data. As part of the course we are looking at collecting data from the Twitter API and using the resulting .csv file as an input into a variety of software, including Processing and ArcMap. Data so far has been focused on displaying the output from ArcGIS as a slightly more traditional map, albeit in 3D via Lumion: Taking a step back it is possible to take a more abstract view of the data visualisation and use…

  • When Atoms Meet Bits: Social Media, the Mobile Web and Augmented Revolution

    Smithee
    24 Jan 2012 | 3:30 am
    As Editor of Future Internet i am pleased to announce that Nathan Jurgenson of the University of Maryland has just published a new paper entitled 'When Atoms Meet Bits: Social Media, the Mobile Web and Augmented Revolution':  The rise of mobile phones and social media may come to be historically coupled with a growing atmosphere of dissent that is enveloping much of the globe. The Arab Spring, UK Riots, Occupy and many other protests and so-called “flash-mobs” are all massive gatherings of digitally-connected individuals in physical space; and they have recently become the…

  • London's Twitter Island - From ArcGIS to Max to Lumion

    Smithee
    21 Jan 2012 | 4:32 am
    As part of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation, here in CASA at The Bartlett, University College London, we are exploring new methods and techniques for visualising data. As part of the course we are looking at collecting data from the Twitter API and using the resulting .csv file as an input into a variety of software, including Processing and ArcMap. One such known example is the London Twitter map by UrbanTick, developed using the data collector created by Steven Gray and imported by Fabian into ArcMap, it developed a style of its own as the 'NewCity Landscape'…

  • The Street Network Evolution of Crowdsourced Maps: OpenStreetMap in Germany 2007–2011

    Smithee
    17 Jan 2012 | 9:49 am
    We are pleased to note another new paper in Future Internet Journal as part of the special issue on on NeoGeography and WikiPlanning The Street Network Evolution of Crowdsourced Maps: OpenStreetMap in Germany 2007–2011 Pascal Neis 1* , Dennis Zielstra 2  and Alexander Zipf 1  1 Geoinformatics Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Berliner Street 48, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany2 Geomatics Program, University of Florida, 3205 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA The OpenStreetMap (OSM) project…

  • All at Sea - Google 3D Warehouse and Lumion

    Smithee
    6 Jan 2012 | 4:01 am
    Lumion is a 3D engine for rapid visualisation, it allows models to be quickly imported and integrated within more complex scenes.  One of its strong points is support for the COLLADA  - COLLAborative Design Activity file format for interactive 3D applications file format, allowing models to be easily exported from Google SketchUp. As a quick test of its capabilities we headed over to the Google 3D Warehouse and downloaded three models of iconic London buildings. By simply importing into SketchUp and then exporting in .dae…
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  • Friday Smackdown: Telby Trubo

    Josh Mings
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Decidedly pertinent as it was, he set forth, silvery landscaped before him and each step sending a minor chord of mischief through the white haze layered against the ground. On his back, the survivors, a small lot, best know for their gun arts and the ability to form bullets from these links. Victorior – The imaginations of. This is the art of Wanchana Intrasombat of Thailand. He brings amamzing composition to these intricate character and scenes. Three Little Pigs – The comic styling of one John Branyan and his version (perhaps the best) of the three little pigs. Marathon run…

  • The Amazing Gravity Stools of Jólan van der Wiel (and His Incredible Magnet Machine)

    Josh Mings
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    After what I’ve just seen, I feel as if I could point my hand at a simmering pool of metal and shape it with the power of my mind. Dutch Designer Jólan van der Wiel is practically doing just that. He’s created a process (and a machine) to pull a metallic-formulated resin from a liquid state, curing it into the forms you see below within a half hour. You’ll have to see the process Jólan goes through to truly appreciate it. It’s the most beautiful, organic formations of a small furniture piece I’ve ever seen. Jólan van der Wiel’s Gravity stool…

  • Pirate Bay Introduces Physical 3D Printed Object Download

    Josh Mings
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Imagine a Record Executive going over to a 3D file sharing site downloading a pair of patent-protected headphones, laughing as he jiggles and listens to his DRM’ed music list. Ironic. You may think ‘big deal’ when you hear it, but thePirateBay.org, a site infamous for file-sharing and online piracy is making torrent-tearing waves with the announcement of ‘Physibles’ – a category for physical objects you can download and print. Is this a bad thing? The Future is a Pirate Bay 3D Printed Download Away… or Is It? The Physibles category on thePriateBay is,…

  • Use This Gear Template Generator to Crank Your Creations

    Josh Mings
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Who loves wooden gears? We do! We do! Wooden hand high five all around for a tool that helps you create the gears and the templates to crank those creations. The Gear template generator from woodgears.ca is a magical web-based tool (probably) using little wooden mathematical gears on the back end to output a 2D downloadable file, that you can also print, slap on a piece of cardboard, plywood, acrylic or other material and cut out. Gear Template generator and How-to The gear generator is just one resource on the site you’ll want to use. They also have a stand-alone gear generator that…

  • Form-Z 7 Prepares to Launch Parametric Modeling Point Blank in Your Face

    Josh Mings
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:30 am
    AutoDesSys is peeling back the flexible underbelly of form-Z 7 and stuffing in a slew of new features. Form-Z has been around a while. It’s always had great features for architectural modeling, but this new version brings even more to the freeform table. New features increase the options you have for dynamic modeling of roofs and stairs and also deliver an array other geometry shaping goodness, including direct modeling with new parametric features, updated deformation tools and new NURBS functionality that makes fixing up those forms a lot easier. Here’s a look. form-Z 7 Other…
 
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  • Bonyface 3.0 maxscript for 3ds max

    admin
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:23 am
    ScriptAttack announced the upcoming release of BonyFace 3.0. Bonyface is a facial animation system. The latest version of its commercial script for rigging and animating facial expressions. (...)

  • Real Ground Plants V1.1 for 3ds max and C4D

    admin
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:21 am
    German artist Benjamin Springer has released his collection of 12 Realistic ground plants for C4D and 3DS Max. (...)

  • Marvelous Designer Clo3d development update

    admin
    17 Jan 2012 | 3:37 am
    CLO Virtual Fashion has updated the future development plan for its Marvelous Designer cloth design and simulation software. (...)

  • Tree Generator Maxscript for 3ds max

    admin
    16 Jan 2012 | 2:25 am
    A very nice and usable Tree Generator Maxscript. Ryan Smith has released a beta of his new free tree generation script. You can create varieties of low poly trees for your 3ds max projects. (...)

  • Making Tire Dust using FumeFX

    admin
    9 Jan 2012 | 12:57 am
    Alessandro Cangelosi has released a tutorial to create tire dust using FumeFX. (...)
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  • AMD MLAA Direct3D 11 Demo, Binary and Source Code Available

    JeGX
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:19 am
    AMD has published a Direct3D 11 demo about MLAA (MorphoLogical Anti-Aliasing). For more information about MLAA, read this post. This sample demonstrates a post-process pixel shader technique that...

  • AMD Catalyst 12.1 WHQL Released

    JeGX
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:16 am
    AMD has released the January 2012 edition of its WHQL-certified graphics drivers for Radeon based graphics cards. Catalyst 12.1 drivers do not support new Radeon HD 7900 series. For HD 7900, you can...

  • (Test) AMD Catalyst 8.921.2 RC11 for Radeon HD 7900, Big Performance Boost in OpenGL Tessellation (*** Updated ***)

    JeGX
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:27 am
    AMD has released a new release candidate of the upcoming WHQL driver (Cat 12.01). This new RC11 brings important performance gains in OpenGL tessellation, especially when high level of tessellation...

  • GPU Caps Viewer 1.14.6 Released

    JeGX
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:20 am
    This update of GPU Caps Viewer brings the support of Radeon HD 7970 and upcoming Radeon HD 7950 and fixes a bug in OpenCL information. The depth of the 3D image size (CL_DEVICE_IMAGE3D_MAX_DEPTH) was...

  • (Test) ASIC Quality of GeForce GPUs

    JeGX
    22 Jan 2012 | 9:29 am
    The latest GPU-Z 0.5.8 includes a new feature that displays the quality of the GPU (ASIC quality) of recent graphics cards (GeForce GTX 400, GTX 500 and Radeon HD 7800, HD 7900 series). Not all GPUs...
 
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  • Mo’ Sexy 3D Out Now!

    admin
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:54 am
    You probably remember 3D Girls, the most popular 3D video of 2011. For 2012, here’s Mo, possibly the sexiest 3D Girl, on her own. It seemed only appropriate to title this video, Mo’ Sexy.   If you want more Mo, leave us a comment or give us a rating. Thumbs up this video and share [...]

  • Everyone’s excited for Mo’ and so do we!

    admin
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:39 am
    She’s our girl from 3DGuy’s best 3D video of 2011— Mo’!   Do you still remember her? Everybody can’t wait to see her again.Make sure to visit www.3DGuy.tv and subscribe to our mailing list and be one of the firsts to see her unleashed— in 3D!   More of Mo’….COMING SOON!   Visit our Homepage [...]

  • Hugo 3D Wins Best Picture 2012

    admin
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:38 am
    Maybe we here at 3DGuy are getting a little ahead of ourselves. But we looked into our 3D crystal ball and saw Martin Scorsese  surrounded by Academy Awards!    3DGuy offers sincere congratulations to Martin Scorsese and his modern masterpiece HUGO. This 3D movie is setting new standards to not only 3D films but 2D films [...]

  • A 3D Printer That Works With Chocolate?

    admin
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:13 am
    Instead of the toxic smell of melted plastics, while the Imagine 3D printer is doing its thing, your workspace will be filled with the aroma of delicious confections. Because its printing head uses syringes that can be filled with chocolate. Read the rest of the article at Gizmodo.com.   Click here to watch our HOTTEST 3D [...]

  • 3D printing brings new angle to animation

    admin
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:09 am
    Sony Pictures’ upcoming “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” still uses molding clay and traditional stop-motion animation to bring its wide-eyed characters to life, but creator Aardman Animations happily embraced a strange new technology to make those figures speak: 3D printers. A 3D printer is much like an ordinary one, but it works in a third [...]
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  • Stylized Challenge #01 - Results

    ClassicGamer-3DT
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:21 am
    1st Place - kogen 2nd Place - xxxcubanxxx 3rd Place - wil_himura Honourable Mentions - Jussslic, Astro AJ, Adroit.jrk & paulius-st. Congratulations to all participants, well done all of of you, superb entries by all :dance:

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    27 Jan 2012 | 9:15 pm
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  • Batman with classic costume

    richard28128
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:20 pm
    Hi Everybody, this is my first attempt to render a model made in zbrush, hope you will like. Kind Regards, Riccardo Attached Images  

  • Platige Image - Behind the Scenes of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Trailer

    Freespace-3DT
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:10 pm
    Platige Image have released a short behind the scenes article on their latest CG trailer for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. - VIEW HERE - Attached Images  

  • Iron Sky - Trailer

    Freespace-3DT
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:08 pm
    Space nazis from the moon are coming to invade the Earth in Iron Sky. See the latest trailer and director interview. - VIEW HERE - Attached Images  
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  • Abyssal Server and management system from makers of OpenGL based gaming engine

    Khronos Group
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:21 am
    Abyssal Technologies, developer of the OpenGL based engine and tool set has a new proprietary server management solution available for the hosting of commercial grade massively multiplayer games. Everything required for properly supporting and managing a commercial grade massively multiplayer title.

  • Graphics And Physics Framework - Graphics And Physics Update

    Khronos Group
    19 Jan 2012 | 4:52 pm
    The GLSL Shader Library was revised due to compatibility issues with the latest AMD Catalyst driver 12.1. All OpenCL physics demo programs are now running (CPU physics only) without an installed OpenCL platform. Therefore an additional Physics and Worker Thread Framework was developed.

  • OGLplus 0.9.0 released

    Khronos Group
    19 Jan 2012 | 1:47 pm
    OGLplus is a open-source header-only library which implements a thin object-oriented facade over the OpenGL C-language API. It provides wrappers which automate resource and object management and make the use of OpenGL in C++ safer and easier.

  • “The OpenGL 4.0 Shading Language Cookbook” available

    Khronos Group
    11 Jan 2012 | 5:03 pm
    The OpenGL Shading Language 4.0 Cookbook is a practical guide that takes you from the basics of programming with GLSL 4.0 and OpenGL 4.0, through basic lighting and shading techniques, to more advanced techniques and effects. It presents techniques for producing basic lighting and shading effects; examples that demonstrate how to make use of textures for a wide variety of effects and as part of other techniques; examples of screen-space techniques, shadowing, tessellation and geometry shaders, noise, and animation.

  • OpenGL 3.3 Tutorials For Windows

    Khronos Group
    9 Jan 2012 | 3:20 pm
    These OpenGL 3.3 Tutorials for Windows are written in a step-by-step fashion, starting from context creation. For those who want to learn and use modern OpenGL on Windows with no or little experience, these tutorials will give you a good foundation for your OpenGL programming.
 
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  • !!» TOP: Where to Buy Sale Price Toshiba 42TL515U 42-Inch Natural 3D 1080p 240 Hz LED-LCD HDTV with Net TV, Black for Sale on Deals Low Price in USA in 2012 Shopping Online, From Brand: Toshiba Model: 42TL515U

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    26 Jan 2012 | 5:33 pm
    Toshiba 42TL515U 42-Inch Natural 3D 1080p 240 Hz LED-LCD HDTV with Net TV, Black >> Value-minded buyers ready to take the 3D plunge will zoom right in on the 42″ class TL515U LED HDTV with its dazzling big screen 3D performance, sophisticated styling, affordability, plus famous Toshiba quality, innovation and reliability. General Information–Manufacturer–Toshiba::General Information–Manufacturer Part Number–42TL515U:General Information–Brand Name–Toshiba::General Information–Product Series–TL515::General Information–Product…

  • Pub Scene

    kevinmcfadden87
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:31 pm
    In this project we were required to model a 3D object of our choice and place it in an appropriate environment using LightWave. I chose a cigarette box as my object and a pub as my setting. I placed an original poster of my band in the scene as well as using original music created in GarageBand.

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    26 Jan 2012 | 5:10 pm

  • !!» TOP: Where to Buy Sale Price Panasonic VIERA TC-P55GT30 55-Inch 1080p 3D Plasma HDTV for Sale on Deals Low Price in USA in 2012 Shopping Online, From Brand: Panasonic Model: TC-P55GT30

    judithbflock
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:04 pm
    Panasonic VIERA TC-P55GT30 55-Inch 1080p 3D Plasma HDTV >> The Panasonic TC-PGT30 has excellent overall picture quality, with deep black levels, accurate color, and solid video processing. It can handle 1080p/24 sources and bright rooms well and exhibits the nearly perfect screen uniformity of plasma, as well as very good 3D picture quality. It includes a Wi-Fi dongle, its Internet suite is simple to use yet content-rich, and the styling is handsome with a 1.5-inch-deep panel. 3D Technology Checklist This product is 3D-related. To help you get a great 3D experience, use the checklist…

  • News by Kunglers

    wiccamerlin
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:03 pm
    Gown: Kunglers – “Ingrid Gown”/white – NEW Jewelry: Alienbear – “Mayur” Nails: Finesmith – “Onyx Nails” Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie” (special custom makeup) Hair: Mirone – “Adie” /black Pose: Manifeste Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin
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  • How Digital Domain created Robotarm

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:59 am
    Aladino Debert, of Digital Domain, talks about some of the challenges and also the process of creating their new fully CG spot in under a four week time constraint. Read the [...] See news item

  • The Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings trailer

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:07 am
    Platige Image has recently completed an impressive trailer for the role-playing video game developed by Polish studio CD Projekt RED, adapted from the book series by Andrzej Sapkowski. The video was [...] See news item

  • FiberMesh to Splines for 3DS Max released

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:03 am
    FiberMesh to Splines is a new plugin by Marius Silaghi designed to convert exported FiberMesh fur, fibers and hair from ZBrush to splines in 3DS Max. More at Marius Silaghi’s [...] See news item

  • Gus Grubba joins Brazil 3.0 development

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:03 am
    An interesting turn of events. One of the original developers of 3D Studio and 3DS Max, Gus Grubba, who’s worked as a senior software engineer for the Yost Group, Autodesk and [...] See news item

  • BonyFace 3.0 announced

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:37 pm
    ScriptAttack announced the upcoming release of BonyFace 3.0, the latest version of its commercial script for rigging and animating facial expressions. New features include an improved rig for eyes, mouth and [...] See news item
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  • cmiVFX Presents Nuke For TD's - Custom Python Tools

    maynard
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:05 pm
    Attachment 12908 cmiVFX Presents Nuke For TD's - Custom Python Tools High Definition Training Videos for the Visual Effects Industry * Toronto, CA (January 27th, 2012) – cmiVFX today released it's brand new, high end, long format, video lecture for the ever increasing introductory programming requirements for the Visual Effects and Computer Graphics industries. Acting as a responsible entity, in this still vastly growing media industry, cmiVFX and its legendary mentoring team, have created a brand new window of knowledge in which to look through. PYTHON, a word that even the most…

  • New Photoshop Wiki

    Jack Youngblood
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:34 am
    Dear all, may I introduce my new Photoshop Wiki: http://opticalenquiry.com/photoshop/ I wrote it to support my digital painting course here in Singapore's School of Art Design and Media. It covers such elements of Photoshop as are useful to the digital painter. It also dips its toe into some key picture-making skills such as composition and perspective. It is very much a work in progress. Feedback welcome.

  • Bullet for maya 2012 issues

    glassman3d
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:01 am
    Hi I am currently trying out the Bullet plugin for maya 2012 Apologies for the noobiness of this post but there are some fundamental points about the solver that are not very clear from the docs firstly it would seem that bullet is more stable when working with the scene scale set to cm. When we set gravity to -980 cm ;it would seem that objects never hit this terminal velocity. They keep accelerating. Are we missing something? acceleration pattern of a ball with default mass of 1 1 sec 24 frames = 4.52 units 2 sec 24 frames = 14.312 units 3 sec 24 frames = 24.112 units 4 sec 24 frames =…

  • corner pin

    Antonio
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:16 am
    I am tracking a small image on a pretty big resolution footage, I'd like to apply a corner pin on the image I'm tracking to change its perspective, so if I apply it I can do this but the 4 points of the corner pin are at the corners of the background footage, which is too far from the card I'm tracking, is there any way in nuke to have the 4 points of the corner pin just around the area of the object you are corner pinning? hope my question is clear, thanks!

  • NEW BLOG POST: Autodesk Smoke: Expressions - Ramping Animation

    editwhiz
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:25 am
    Hi Everyone, I have posted a new expressions video on the Smoke Learning Channel: Autodesk Smoke: Expressions - Ramping Animation Expressions are great for numerous things but normally they apply a "locked out" animation to the curve you apply it to. However you can "ramp up" your animation intensity and timing by multiplying curves together with a simple expression. It's a great way to control multiple animation channels on one animation slider! You can check this out at http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/discreetuk You can also see the videos on my YouTube Channel -…
 
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  • Using Annotation from Linked Views & Troubleshooting Missing Annotation - Revit Clinic

    Gregory Arkin
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:01 pm
    Source/Link:   Using Annotation from Linked Views & Troubleshooting Missing Annotation BIM -The Revit Clinic By default you can utilize annotation, such as dimensions \ room tags \ text \ etc, from a linked model view in the host model view.  Under Visibility \ Graphic Overrides > Revit Links, you can set the link to By Linked View or Custom: When you select a linked view that contains annotation, it should display in the host model: However if you find the annotation missing from the linked view, there are a few common items to confirm which I have organized below: 1.  Is the…

  • Two New Free Addins available for Project Vasari

    Gregory Arkin
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:26 pm
    Source/Link:     Two New Free Addins available for Project Vasari BIM -It is Alive in the Lab On the heels of the update of the Parametric Sliders add-in for Project Vasari, the team has provided two additional add-ins: Automatically Update Export for Solar Radiation This WIP adds a check box to the Ecotect Solar Radiation tool to allow automatic update of an exported .csv file when analysis results are updated. // Download // Wiki help Dynamo for Vasari Build parametric functionality on top of Vasari with a graphical user interface. Autodesk has extended the open source effort of Ian…

  • SAuBIM - Code Calculations for Revit - On Sale!

    Gregory Arkin
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:27 pm
    Hey Jeff, the Revit users at my company use your product.  Why isn't everybody else?Source/Link:    SAuBIM - Code Calculations for Revit - On Sale! BIM -The Revit Kid! In honor of the semester starting again SAuBIM is on sale for 30% off starting today and ending in one month... Click here to get the software now for less than 14 dollars!   Posted by: Jeffrey A. Pinheiro, LEED AP at The Revit Kid.com!
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  • Welcome to your new blog at The3dStudio.com by magda--7626

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:50 am
    You have finished creating your blog at The3dStudio.com!You can now begin customizing your blog theme, changing fonts and colors, or just start posting to your blog. All of these things can be done via the links at the top of your blog.You can edit this post or delete it as well.

  • Low poly weapon pack. by pes

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:34 am
    @import url(http://www.the3dstudio.com/CuteSoft_Client/CuteEditor/Load.ashx?type=style&file=SyntaxHighlighter.css); Finally finished uploading my weapon pack. Was made for a game project that will never be released.  All weapons have diffuse, normal map and specular TGA textures. Great for 3rd person games.    All weapons also available separately.    Feel free to comment :)     

  • BMW logo by Andranik.Tigranyan

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:26 am
    Hello. I am new here. This is my updated BMW logo. Rate if you like it. :) 

  • Space Freighter by FattyPants

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:17 pm
    Hi all, Well, new model time has arrived again and so here is the newest addition to my selection of science fiction style stuff. =)  SPACE FREIGHTER  It's a highly detailed space freighter with folding wings and forward and aft hatches which raise and lower.FEATURES:All details fully modeled, including individual hull plates. No displacement maps needed.Working loading ramps and wings .blend format only."spacefreighter_BLEND_C.zip" is ready for Blender Cycles renderer.NOTES:All fully textured preview images rendered in Blender Cycles renderer.Rust and oil decals only…

  • Help sellers by giving ratings by brainspoon

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:19 pm
    If you buyers want to support us sellers you should give the bought item a rating after you downladed it.It helps us to know what products you like and what we should improve. If you do not know where you can do that, you have to go into your profile and click the  "Review Products" button.Took me some time too to discover that. I think it would be better to have the ability to directly rate on the products page.   Thanks
 
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    3DVIA Blog

  • 3DVIA Top 10 3D Models – 130

    dswavely
    20 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
    Hold on to your hat if you get close to the fury of sound from the blue roadster or take a ride in the exquisite yacht! If you’re feeling elegant, pick up your luxury bag after appreciating the gorgeous flower arrangement and head out. You have two choices of beautiful homes and two wonderful places for your other activities. Just don’t let that pesky little mosquito puncture your fun. The ten best 3D models and one 3DVIA Scene uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the weeks of Saturday, December 31st, 2011 through Friday, January 13th, 2012 are highlighted here. (Easy links to all 129…

  • 3DVIA Top 10 – Best of the Best – 2011!

    dswavely
    10 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm
    It was an exceptionally busy year for everyone here at 3DVIA! One result was that the weekly Top 10 blog posts became bi-weekly instead. This means that there are 28 Top 10′s to gather data from, compared to 47 last year. To be statistically more accurate, the Best of the Best 2011 compilation now determines the Top 5 modelers of 2011. Because of a tie for fifth place, 6 Truly extraordinary 3DVIA modelers are recognized here as the Top 5 modelers for the models that they created in 2011! CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH OF YOU! The Best of the Best 2011 is a celebration of these individual…

  • 3DVIA Top 10 3D Models – 129

    dswavely
    7 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Inside or outside, moving or stationary, hot or elegant, wild or relaxing – we’ve got you covered! Pick up that fiddle and get a move on to see this week’s 10 best! The ten best 3D models and one 3DVIA Scene uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the weeks of Saturday, December 17th through Friday, December 30th, 2011 are highlighted here. (Easy links to all 128 previous Top 10 posts are right after the current week’s models and 3DVIA Scenes. The Top 10: We’re familiar with Heart in Your Hand’s work with heart defect models, but Spinetest, modeled by hyhteam, is in a…

  • 3DVIA Top 10 3D Models – 128

    dswavely
    23 Dec 2011 | 6:30 am
    There are THREE 3DVIA Scenes in addition to the 10 excellent models this week! Think of them as a holiday bonus. :) More and more modelers are seeing the value of putting their models along with other free models from the 3DVIA model collection into a 3DVIA Scene to give their viewers a way to see their work in a more realistic environment. The models for this last Top 10 in 2011 (Top 10 – 129, covering December 17 to December 30, will appear in early 2012) are as varied and wonderful as ever! Each is both beautiful and functional in their own way. From the digital preservation of a…

  • 3DVIA Top 10 3D Models – 127

    dswavely
    8 Dec 2011 | 7:00 am
    This has been the hardest Top 10 that I’ve done so far. There were so many deserving models that I could barely keep up with them. Making the selections was extremely difficult! What a great group of modelers we have here on 3DVIA! Thank you all for your tremendous work!  The ten best 3D models and one 3DVIA Experience uploaded to 3DVIA.com during the weeks of Saturday, November 19th through Friday, December 2nd, 2011 are highlighted here. (Easy links to all 126 previous Top 10 posts are right after the current week’s models and 3DVIA Experience. The Top 10: I can’t imagine…
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    Civil 3D Reminders

  • Importing Excel Data

    Christopher Fugitt
    24 Jan 2012 | 1:19 pm
    With all of the new features that come out, sometimes it’s hard to catch what you may have missed in the past. In this video I’ll cover how copy and paste data from Excel into AutoCAD to get a table that prints nicely. Other methods such as printing to PDF or using an OLE image can come out blurry and not print well on the plans. this method alleviates this problem and provides a way to show the data using an AutoCAD table. That works great for single use, but what if you want a link between Excel and AutoCAD. Well That’s where Data Links come in handy. The video below goes through the…

  • Cosmic Shelf

    Christopher Fugitt
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:52 pm
    This weekend I attended StartUp Weekend SLO, held at Cal Poly, SLO. It was a great event where you pitch business ideas and then create teams for the most popular ideas. The teams then create a business based on those ideas. Some ideas pivot, or change into other ideas, some die and some stay until the end. The team I joined was Cosmic Bookshelf. The concept is a way to interact with your virtual books in a bookshelf. I joined because it seemed the most not a web only application. My expertise was having read some blog post on the Kinect by Kean Walmsley at Through the Interface on using the…

  • Subassembly Composer Links

    Christopher Fugitt
    16 Jan 2012 | 8:21 pm
    I’m presenting this Wednesday (January 18) at the  North Bay Civil Users Group (Northern California) on Subassembly Composer. If you are in the area stop by and say hi. Here are some links for information regarding Subassembly Composer. SAC Wiki Help Autodesk University Classes: Music for Your Brain: Advanced Lessons in the Subassembly Composer Create Subassemblies That Think Outside the Box with Subassembly Composer for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® You Tube Video by Dana Probert Autodesk Subassembly Composer Support Pack for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 & 2012 Have any other links? Please leave…

  • Vicinity Maps

    Christopher Fugitt
    3 Jan 2012 | 7:37 pm
    Using Map makes it easy to create vicinity maps. Not quite sure how everyone else is doing it, but this is the way that I’m doing it now on when there is GIS data available. The first step is to download the street data from where the County where the project is located. For the County of Los Angeles it is available as a Shape File. Next change the workspace to Map’s. It’s got a code name of Planning and Analysis, so it makes it obvious that it contains the Map commands. I import the shape file into a drawing, but one could also use FDO. I then save the file with a catchy name like…

  • Map 3D and You

    Christopher Fugitt
    23 Dec 2011 | 10:29 am
    If you aren’t using the Map capabilities in Civil 3D then you should be. Especially if you are required to show vicinity maps on your plans. By using queries to data it makes it easy to create and label the streets. If you need to create maps showing zoning, sewer lines, and other information then Map 3D is something you should look into. If you are looking to learn Map 3D you might want to take a class or purchase a book. One such book, I received from Cadapult Software Solutions, Inc. (for free), is A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Map 3D 2012. I just happened to have projects to perform a…
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  • Tutoriales de Naiad

    admin
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:40 am
    Tutoriales introductorios a Naiad.

  • Renderman On Demand

    admin
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:39 am
    Pixar ofrece su nuevo servicio de render online mediante una renderfarm escalable con Renderman optimizado para cualquier tipo de producción. Link

  • Ambient Occlusion en After Effects

    admin
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:38 am
    DarkCorner es un plugin para After que simula ambient occlusion de una imagen o secuencia de imágenes renderizadas utilizando un canal de profundidad ( Z depth).

  • VFX de Final Destination 5

    admin
    15 Jan 2012 | 9:42 pm
    El antes y el después de la secuencia del puente en HD.

  • Marlboro – Car projection mapping

    admin
    15 Jan 2012 | 9:41 pm
    Mapping realizado por Raduga Design.
 
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  • Burton shows their Aerial True 3D volumetric displays at CES

    3ddisplay
    12 Jan 2012 | 3:28 am
    Burton is showing their Aerial True 3D volumetric display at CES 2012. This display (unveiled on November 2011) uses lasers to create a volumetric display and is based on technology developed in 2006 by AIST and Keio University. The idea is to use lasers to produce plasma excitation from oxygen an nitrogen atoms in the air:

  • Sony shows a 46" glasses-free 3D LCD prototype

    3ddisplay
    10 Jan 2012 | 1:28 pm
    Sony is showing a new 46" glasses-free 3D TVs. The panel is an LCD panel, here's a video showing the display in action:

  • 3D TVs too popular for us...

    3ddisplay
    10 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm
    3D-Display-Info's main focus is 3D display technology, industry and market. It seems that most new TV sets announced these days include 3D support. While this is great news for the 3D industry, we decided to stop listing all those new TVs - and we'll only report on new and exciting 3D displays...

  • Haier EV series

    3ddisplay
    10 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    Haier "Designer" EV series (55", 65") are Edge-backlit passive-3D LED LCDs that features 2D-to-3D conversion, Yahoo Connected TV and Haier's own Smart Hoem UI.We do not know the price yet, but the TVs should ship by Q2 2012. Size (Inches):  55", 65"

  • Samsung announce a 55" Super-OLED 3D TV

    3ddisplay
    10 Jan 2012 | 3:55 am
    During CES 2012, Samsung announced a 55" Super-OLED TV, with active-shutter 3D support. Samsung wouldn't reveal the model number and price yet, but it does promise it will ship the TV by Q2 or Q3 2012. The Super-OLED TV also features Samsung's new Smart TV and Smart-Interaction technologies. It includes a camera can can be controled via a remote control, voice control, motion control and face recognition. 
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    StereoscopyNews: The Stereoscopic 3D Weekly Newsletter

  • Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:40 am
    Warner Bros is releasing "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" in 3D from January 19, 2012 in Australia, to February 3, 2012 in UK, February 10, 2012 in the USA, and as late as April 20, 2012 in Norway. The movie is best viewed in IMAX theatres, but is also released in a lot a other 3D venues.   

  • WW II 3D Released on Blu-ray 3D

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:51 am
    WW-II IN 3D tells the story of the war from the rise of the Nazis, their sweep across Europe, the Allied counterattack and the fall of Nazi Germany. This documentary is made of archived 3D photos and 3Dvideos. Some really stunning Ally aerial reconnaissance photographs show very clear how the Allied forces found the 3D photos helpful when planning ground assaults and invasions. The centerpiece of WWII in 3D, though, is a newly restored (albeit incredibly short) Nazi propaganda film, never before seen by the public, shot in stereoscopic 3D in 1943. In it, German soldiers aim and fire an 88mm…

  • Disney Learns Fast: 3D Re-releases are Coming!

    23 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm
    The Lion King 3D success prompted Disney to dig in its treasure trove of good old animated movies ready to be converted to 3D and making money once more. Next in line are Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., and the Little Mermaid.

  • "Evolution (Megaplex)", 3D jewel from the Sundance Festival

    22 Jan 2012 | 2:58 pm
    The most exciting film at the Sundance Film Festival (19-29 Jan 2012, Sundance, Utah, USA) is presented at the fest’s New Frontier exhibition space and is named “Evolution (Megaplex)”. Created by Marco Brambilla, director of "Demolition Man" in 1993, this large-scale installation is extraordinary. It’s a stereoscopic 3D video collage which plays onscreen in a 3-minutes loop offering a wild abundance of arresting images and segments from 30 films at any given moments. Viewers will recognize "King Kong," "Ghandi," the parting of the Red Sea from "The Ten Commandments," John Wayne in…

  • New 3D smartphone: Sharp Aquos SH80F

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:50 am
     The new SH80F weights 135 gr. only, but it packs a dual 8-Mpixels camera, a 4.2 inches 3D screen (no glasses needed, parallax-barrier autostereoscopic technology), a 540x960 pixels display in 262,000 colors, a front 0.3 Mpixels camera, 2 Gb of memory, a Micro-SD card slot, a flash, HDMI video out, and Android operating system ! And 2D to 3D conversion is included... The AQUOS Phone's parallax barrier system—which imitates the parallax difference between our right and left eye—enables the display of vivid three-dimensional HD images without the need for glasses. The phone recognises…
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    Spatial blogs

  • When Is a Point Not Necessarily a Point?

    John S.
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:35 am
    Answer: when it’s a 'HappyPathPoint'.Happy New Year everyone! I left off my last post with a dilemma: I wanted to design the interface for a function that people will call when they want to find the closest point on a surface to a test point. The problem is that the answer to this question is only usually a single, isolated point. Every now and then the answer is a set of (more than one) points. For example, all the points on a spherical surface are 'closest' to its center. So how does one design the interface so that the person writing the client code naturally accounts for this…

  • Thoughts on Agile - Epilogue

    Stefanie
    20 Jan 2012 | 6:14 am
    To finish up this series of posts; what Gregg's post described happened a few years ago. Since that first team room, we've kept and dropped some Agile practices, and each development team has evolved their own processes. But the original idea has stuck. He did have to coerce developers into the room the first time. But it worked. Why? Because he correctly identified the criteria for making them successful, and well, I guess people liked that.  Now most Spatial developers still work in teams rooms . . . but by choice. Some occasionally, some full time.  I guarantee…

  • Thoughts on Agile: What happens to six developers locked in a room together for six weeks? (Part II)

    Gregg
    13 Jan 2012 | 2:24 pm
    Spatial Developers in a Team RoomSo Stefanie's right; but a slight introduction before the criteria. We were floundering big time with Agile. Our original belief was a take-no-prisoners, do-everything-the-book-said, all-R&D strategy. What we ended up with were endless meetings and mind-numbing philosophical debates on “what Agile really was”. It didn’t help when we heard outside sources say, “well, I’ve seen it before and it was like this”. But these outside sources were hapless in helping us install it at Spatial. I personally felt we were chasing a ghost.So this is what we…

  • Thoughts on Agile; What happens to six developers locked in a room together for six weeks? (Part I)

    Stefanie
    12 Jan 2012 | 12:19 pm
    New Year, time for some resolutions that I'm surely not going to keep. One for work - I really need to make a bigger contribution to the blog. I have a few new ideas, but before getting too ambitious, I need to use one that has been in the, well, backlog, you might say, for a while.Let me turn my memory back to a time when I worked in the Spatial office (I'm remote now, more on that another time), and I would wander into Gregg's office where we'd solve all the problems of the world, compare notes on our sons, and make an earnest pact to get more serious about the blog. We'd list out 20 or 30…

  • Ignorance is Strength?

    Eric
    1 Dec 2011 | 11:09 am
    Ramblings about the benefits and perils of polymorphism. Use of virtual functions, function pointers, or other delayed function dispatch, distinguishes object oriented programming methods from others. This enables you to make abstractions to separate components (by which I mean coherent and tightly coupled sections of code) from each other. The ignorance of how services are provided strengthens the code by allowing you to make significant changes to one component without affecting others. Or that is how it is supposed to work . . . Browsing online, I stumbled across instructions for how…
 
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    3D Printer

  • 3D Printing: A Primer by Lisa Harouni at TED

    Mark Fleming
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:12 pm
    TED, the nonprofit organization that is devoted to spreading ideas, is actually about as old as 3D Printing. You thought they were both new? No, 3D Printing has been around for decades doing prototyping for manufacturers, and TED began in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from technology, entertainment and design. But just as 3D Printing has been moving into the limelight in recent years as the technology has become good enough and cheap enough to enter the mainstream market, TED has over the last few years reached out and touched tens of millions of people it hadn’t before,…

  • A Peek Inside Microsoft’s 3D Printing Model Shop

    Mark Fleming
    24 Dec 2011 | 2:42 pm
    In this video, Microsoft user experience designer Karsten Aagaard gives tech writer Joshua Topolsky a guided tour of Microsoft’s amazing 3D print shop. Using a variety of state-of-the-art 3D printers, the shop allows user-experience designers to make real-time models to aid Microsoft’s research and development engineers. According to Aagaard, if the engineers can have their design specifications to him by 5:00 PM one day, he can have the model they need in their hands by 8:00 AM the next morning. The 3D printers Microsoft’s designers use have four print heads which dispense…

  • 3D Printing to Infinity and Beyond!

    Mark Fleming
    18 Dec 2011 | 4:20 pm
    Made In Space team members with 3D printer in weightless environment. Credit: Made In Space One of the biggest problems with outer space is getting there. Launching a fully automated, compact payload into geosynchronous orbit with disposable rockets can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $13,000 per pound or payload. That may sound feasible, but these prices increase tremendously when a human presence is required. The International Space Station. Credit: NASA When the space shuttle program was in operation, a typical launch would cost approximately $450 million. The shuttles had a maximum payload…

  • 3D printers to create bone-like material

    Mark Fleming
    6 Dec 2011 | 6:34 pm
    As 2012 approaches, humankind is indeed headed toward revolution. It began discreetly enough with a computer printer. But just as Gutenberg could not have foreseen the implications of his printing press, those who developed early 3D printers wouldn’t have predicted it: Scientists are now printing bone replacers. Yes. Just as your home printer can dispense a thin layer of toner, a medical 3D printer can dispense thin layers of bone-like material. Stack up these layers, expose them to young bone cells, and voila! — you’ve got a custom-fit replacement bone. It’s already happening in…

  • Printerbot: $499 and less than an hour to build

    Mark Fleming
    22 Nov 2011 | 7:58 pm
    A home hobbyist wanting to get into 3D printers has two choices: buy a 3D printer kit or buy a fully assembled 3D printer. The great news for those itching to stick their toes in the three dimensional water is that prices for both choices just keep dropping and dropping. There are some really great kits you can get your hands on now, such as the Makerbot, the Ultimaker, the Prusa Mendel, and others. Considering they do what most people would pretty much call magic, they are cheap in the $1,000 plus range. But now, Brook Drumm, self-professed builder of “geeky stuff,” is going to…
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