Photosynth: build interactive 3D environments from multiple 2D images (1)
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Description: Microsoft Photosynth is a program that can combine multiple images taken at or around a single location from multiple perspectives into a single, unified whole. The resulting synth can be viewed as a single object from different perspectives and browsed in and out of, and it incorporates many of the details that might have [...]
Going Full Circle (2)
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Eureka! I think I’ve got it! Thanks to all of your fantastic feedback on my previous posts, I realized that the Collaboration Continuum I started this weekend isn’t really a continuum at all - it’s a cycle: To me, the cycle idea makes much more sense than a continuum. For starters, I really didn’t like the idea that teachers would feel that they should be at one end of the continuum - the pressure to ...
Intel X58 To Be First Non-NVIDIA Chipset To Get SLI (1)
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Vigile writes "In a somewhat surprising move from a company that is used to holding its proprietary technologies close to its chest, NVIDIA has announced that it is opening up a 'certified SLI motherboard' program for boards using the upcoming Intel X58 chipset. The X58 is Intel's core logic offering for Nehalem/Bloomfield processors and many people wondered how NVIDIA would support SLI on a platform for which they had admitted to not developing a chipset. ...
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LVIII: NVIDIA CEO doesn't know what Larrabee is, doesn't care (2)
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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsNVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just can't resist throwing more jabs at Intel, distracting the inaugural NVISION crowd from Battlestar Galactica star Tricia Helfer with the claim that "Larrabee hasn't shipped so you don't know what it is and I don't know what it is." The fact that we do know what it is -- a next-gen hybrid CPU / GPU -- shouldn't be a concern according to Huang, because "By the time ...
New, easier technique for capturing high-res textures (2)
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I’m no asset creation specialist, but from what I’ve heard it’s not that difficult to get textures, although making a decent normal map that actually corresponds to a texture’s source is tricky. Some boffins at Dolby thought there had to be an easier way than what was available, so they got to thinking. What they came up with is essentially taking a surface’s picture twice: once with ambient lighting that highlights bumps and cracks, and ...
7 Cutting-Edge Ideas You Might Have Missed (1)
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World of Warcraft will slowly update graphics to stay fresh (27)
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Filed under: Mac, PC, RPGs, MMO When a company has one of the most successful MMORPGs games of all time, the last thing anyone there wants to do is throw a wrench into what the customers' rigs can handle. To that end, the Blizzard team explained in a few interviews last week that World of Warcraft's graphical updates will happen over time with expansions. Don't go expecting something like World of Warcraft 2 or a ...
Capturing 3D Surfaces Simply With a Flash Camera (6)
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MojoKid writes with this excerpt from Hot Hardware (linking to a video demonstration): "Creating 3D maps and worlds can be extremely labor intensive and time consuming. Also, the final result might not be all that accurate or realistic. A new technique developed by scientists at The University of Manchester's School of Computer Science and Dolby Canada, however, might make capturing depth and textures for 3D surfaces as simple as shooting two pictures with a digital ...
ImagePhone 0.7.3 (1)
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ImagePhone is a free Mac OS X wallpaper maker and image manager for iPhone/iPod Touch. Image editing is easy due to the adaptable graphics editor that allows to crop and resize images in accordance with the defined exact position and size. Cropping of pictures is effected according to parameters of iPhone display. You can enhance your photos with Core Image-based filters: sharpness, brightness, sepia, blur and more. Ready wallpapers can be organized in wallpapers gallery ...
Scientists Work Out Way to Capture 3D Texture Info in a Flash [Textures] (12)
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Some scientists at University of Manchester in the UK and Dolby Canada in Vancouver have worked out a way to capture 3D info of complex-textured objects really simply with a camera flash. You should care about this because it's likely to make the textures applied to characters and objects in computer games way more realistic: normally texture capturing needs expensive devices like laser scanners. Instead this technique uses something a bit like high dynamic-range photography, ...
Nvidia Firmly Denies Plans To Build a CPU (3)
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Barence writes "A senior vice president of Nvidia has denied rumours that the company is planning an entry into the x86 CPU market. Speaking to PC Pro, Chris Malachowsky, another co-founder and senior vice president, was unequivocal. 'That's not our business,' he insisted. 'It's not our business to build a CPU. We're a visual computing company, and I think the reason we've survived the other 35 companies who were making graphics at the start is ...
Batch Resize Graphics With Shrink O’Matic (1)
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How many times has this happened to you? You have a graphic. You’re trying to find an exciting new way to prepare it for your blog or website. You could scale the graphic, remove the graphic’s tail, head and bones, and serve the graphic as you would any other graphic dinner. But why bother, now that you can use Rovco’s amazing new computer tool, the Super Shrink O’Matic ‘08. Yes, graphic user, the days of ...
NVIDIA throws another punch, sez Larrabee would've been hot in 2006 (1)
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Filed under: Gaming, PeripheralsYou've got to love it, don't you? The prolonged hatefest between Intel and NVIDIA is continuing on today, with Andy Keane, general manager of the company's GPU computing group, delivering the latest blow. While speaking to reporters at the outfit's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, he was quoted as saying that there is still "an incredible amount about Larrabee that's undefined." Furthermore, John Mottram chimed in by suggesting that "as [blogger and CPU ...
Nvidia称Intel的Larrabee是“来自2006年的GPU” (1)
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Nvidia给予了Intel的独立显卡Larrabee以尖锐的批评，将多核CPU/GPU描述成痴心妄想，同时也承认需要追赶上AMD目前的Radeon显卡。 John Mottram，GT200核心的主架构师，对Intel Larrabee显卡的真实性能表达了怀疑，他称，“Intel不是一家愚蠢的公司，他们在上面投入了很多人力，相信它是切实可行的。但是我们的产品线比他们描绘的更有竞争力，现实并没有他们设想的那么乐观。”博客和CPU架构师Peter Glaskowsky说，2010年推出的Larrabee在性能上只相当于2006年的Nvidia或ATI显卡。Mottram是在一年一度的Nvision大会在周一开幕之前发表了这番言论，他同时承认Nvidia低估了ATI的产品。
35 Greatest Works Of Reverse Graffiti (1)
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Reverse graffiti, aka clean tagging, dust tagging or grime writing, is a method of removing dirt from a surface while creating graffiti on walls or other surfaces. It is usually done by removing dirt/dust with the fingertip(s) from windows or other dirty surfaces.Reverse graffiti can be created by using many different methods, the most well known would be words or simple drawing written into the dirt of cars that have not been kept clean. A ...
Create screen shots of websites using Super Screenshots (3)
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Super Screen shots is an online service which allows you to take snapshots of web pages by just providing the URL and some parameters like size and image. This tools gets the advantage in case if you don’t want to use any of the screen shots tool. This is very handy for quick result. Moreover you can do a quick sharing between friends instead of taking a snapshot an emailing as attachment. If you want ...
Nvidia Claims Intel's Larrabee Is "a GPU From 2006" (4)
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Barence sends this excerpt from PC Pro: "Nvidia has delivered a scathing criticism of Intel's Larrabee, dismissing the multi-core CPU/GPU as wishful thinking — while admitting it needs to catch up with AMD's current Radeon graphics cards. 'Intel is not a stupid company,' conceded John Mottram, chief architect for the company's GT200 core. 'They've put a lot of people behind this, so clearly they believe it's viable. But the products on our roadmap are competitive ...
New 80GB PS3 provides minimal power savings, might have 65nm RSX GPU (3)
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Filed under: GamingLast we heard, it was still up in the air somewhat as to whether upcoming PlayStation 3 consoles would house the elusive 65-nanometer RSX graphics processor. According to a curious buyer of Sony's newest 80GB unit, there is a smidgen of data that hints at a 65nm chip actually being under the hood. By using the oh-so-scientific Kill-A-Watt, he discovered that his older 40GB PS3 sucked down 125.8-watts when idle, while the fresh ...
Emily - a legélethűbb avatár (2)
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A GTA 4 animációit is készítő amerikai Image Metrics stúdió megalkotta az eddigi legélethűbb digitális modellt, Emily-t. A csaknem fotorealisztikus karakter a hozzáértők szerint forradalmasítja a filmipart és a játékipart as well, bár azért vannak olyan vélemények is melyek szerint nem az egyre tökéletesebb szereplők poligonok és árnyékok húzzák a játékipart. Jó példa erre a Nintendo Wii konzol, ami egy több éves otthoni PC grafikus képességével is képes feledhetetlen perceket okozni gamerek millióinak. Azért vicces ...
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Csaba said:
ejha, ennek a fele se tréfa :O
