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SIGGRAPH time
This week I am off to Los Angeles for the 2005 edition of SIGGRAPH, the annual mecca of computer graphics professionals, special effects specialists, researchers and geeks of all kinds. I opened an album of SIGGRAPH Photos at Flickr for the occasion. I will try to post new images there daily, along with the other SIGGRAPH pictures already available over…
Trompe l’oeil
I just came across Julian Beever’s pavement drawings. Granted, these drawings on pavement can only be seen from a single point of view, but the level of details and realism is simply breath-taking.
Vue Community @ Renderosity
I missed the anniversary by a couple of months – I have been moderator of the Vue Forum and Vue Gallery at Renderosity for a little more than a year. It has been an interesting experience so far. The community as a whole is enthusiastic, very helpful and open to newcomers. Like most communities online, members come in all shape…
The art of Gilles Tran
At the occasion of a recent Slashdot story about the POVRay competition, I came across the work of Gilles Tran. What amazed me at first was the incredible level of control over the creation process of Computer Graphics, especially considering they are all done with POVray. If you don’t know POVray, just know that it would be an understatement to…
A picture of world news
In the same line as ’10×10′ and ‘Newsmap’, buzztracker is a great example of how aggregation of news from all over the world can change the way we look at news. In this case, Google news feeds are grouped by geographic location and interconnected according to frequencies and relationships between these feeds. The result is a striking map of the…
‘CG Tricks and Treats’ section is open
Since I took on the role of Moderator of the Vue Forum at Renderosity about a year ago, I have come to accumulate a small collection of tips, resources and tutorials either as answers to questions on the forum, requests for articles or just personal discoveries. Since I am in the middle of adding more flexibility to Linfa.net, this is…
Vue Infinite
After months of beta testing, Vue Infinite is finally shipping. The latest iteration of 3D graphics tool by e-on software features ‘ecosystem’ materials, advanced control of materials, multipass rendering for compositing, and advanced lighting models recently included in the more lightweight Vue 5. Beta testing was a lot of fun. Going through the beta testing of Vue 5 and now…
National Geographic – Photo in the News
I just ran into another great source of daily high quality photographs, this time from National Geographic – Photo in the News. This kind of pictures provide a view on aspects of the world that would otherwise completely escape us. They are sometimes surprising, often unexpected and always fascinating. And they even come with a continuous RSS feed 🙂
10×10
10×10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris This site provides a mosaic of news photographs, updated every hour, and representative of the most talked about news of the moment. It offers a very visual equivalent to other graphical views of the news such as Newsmap or Google News. It is interesting to…