Peter Molyneux demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft's Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real 11-year-old, the virtual boy watches, listens and learns -- recognizing and responding to you.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts.
Also see Milo and Kate a video game in development by Lionhead Studios, currently targeted for release on the Xbox 360 video game console platform. Formerly a secretive project best known by the early code name "Dimitri it surfaced in 2009 in a demonstration for Kinect (known at the time by its code-name, Project Natal), a "controller-free" entertainment initiative for the Xbox 360 based on depth-sensing and pattern recognition technologies
A computer program for
Finger Spelling in American Sign Language (ASL) which would benefit:
1.Educational Practice: giving ASL learners an interactive software tool designed to make the acquisition of
Finger Spelling easier and more attractive;
2.Research: contributing to the investigation of dynamical effects occurring within and between signs;
3.Socialization: Facilitating the entry of deaf students into mainstream culture by simultaneously enhancing their literacy in English.
Finger Spelling The program shows a virtual hand, able to fingerspell any English word. The interface allows the user to control the position in space from which the image is viewed, as well as its appearance (size, lighting, rendering) and dynamic presentation (speed, acceleration, degree of hold). The construction of the program uses the existing animation and 3-D
modeling resources of ACCAD.
SmoothTeddy : Quick 3D Modelling and Painting.
SmoothTeddy
is a simple 3D sketch-based modelling and painting software. You can make rotund 3D models such as teddy bears quickly, and paint them in an
integrated environment. The resulting 3D models has hierarchical joint structure, so you can use them for animation projects like
Alice. You can store the model in VRML format. (SmoothTeddy is a successor to
Teddy (See Below) and
Chameleon)
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Load options, use Init first, it may take a few seconds to load predefined shapes, enter:- "bird", "bunny", "default", "dragon", "fish", "plute", "squirrel" and "teddy"
Alice is a 3D animation authoring system developed at CMU.
Motion Capture Lab, ACCAD promotes collaboration with researchers and artists from within as well as outside of The
Ohio State University. This lab allows us to capture human, animal, or other motion, recreate this motion in three dimensional space, and then use the resulting data to do many things from making a virtual character dance across a stage to using the data to compare different people's walks to using the data to drive different computer generated objects and attributes in order to create never before seen results.
Blender is the open source software for 3D
modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
MeshLab is an open source,
portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured
3D triangular meshes. The system is aimed to help the processing of the
typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set
of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting
this kind of meshes.
The system is heavily based on the VCG
library developed at the Visual Computing
Lab of ISTI - CNR, for all the core
mesh processing tasks.
Xara3D:
Create stunning still and animated 3D headings, logos, animations and even 3D screensavers in seconds. Ideal for adding impact to your web pages and presentations, optimized for top on-screen quality. Avoids all the usual scary complexities of 3D software!
Xara
ScreenMaker 3D:
A 3D screensaver maker that's fast, fun and easy to use. Create animated 3D text message screensavers with your own personalized message. Or put any images of your choice onto the sides of a 3D, tumbling cubes . It's the perfect way to share messages or images with friends, family or colleagues - from family photo screensavers to business screensavers with corporate logos.
Xara Graphic Studio:
Xara's three most popular graphics titles in one great value bundle, offers everything you need for creating still and animated 2D and 3D graphics for print and the web, including your everyday photo work.
Fourth Form uses a mix of high-end software and competences such as 3D animation, custom sound effects, music and motion graphics to bring your products or services to life.
® 3D Animation Capability
® Enhanced 3D Resources
® Improved 3D Tools
® Performance Advances
® Customizability
® Direct output Preview
Ready to add a new dimension to your web graphics projects, presentations, or desktop publishing? 3DPlus 2 will take you there! 3DPlus puts all the tools and resources you'll need within easy reach. The professional-quality results will amaze you!
Web3D Consortium. Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication. To develop an architecture and tools to represent and communicate 3D scenes and objects in a fully hardware and OS independent way. X3D is an ISO approved, extensible XML format ensures data durability, data interoperability, and a way for developers to port data between multiple representations and formats, to leverage the separation of the presentation (rendering engine) from the content (the X3D file), as well as the ability to
define 'high-level' markup tags for application-specific needs
3D Engines List. The 3D Engines List tries to provide an overview of software 3D engines for
realtime graphics and VR on various platforms. Each engine is reviewed with list of features, contact information (email, link to homepage) and links to download a demo or the source.
PanoCube,
a program for actually converting panoramas to
Quicktime VRs.
PanoTools,
more specifically, a file called
PTStitcher. It's freeware, but it's getting
harder to find Windows
binaries of it. Most sites host java Jars.
Hugin, a free
Panorama Tools program. With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into
a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and
much more.
BURP, (Big and Ugly
Rendering Project), aims to develop a publicly
distributed system for rendering 3D
animations. Project produces 3D animations on its network of more than 1,000 machines,
giving artists access to free rendering power as needed.
Enblend
Image Blending with Multiresolution
Splines.
Autopano-sift,
another free program. Autopano-SIFT looks at your images and compares
information about the images' content to order them correctly. Together with
programs like
Hugin
and Enblend, you
can create top-quality panorama images.
Vittylib.
Coding and Programming, Applications tips, information for 3D rendering,
etc...
VideoTrace: Rapid interactive scene modelling from video
VideoTrace is a system for
interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from
video—models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation
environment, or another video sequence. The user interacts with
VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modelled over one or
more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user
in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a
small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a
realistic 3D model. Each of the sketching operations in VideoTrace
provides an intuitive and powerful means of modelling shape from video,
and executes quickly enough to be used interactively. Immediate feedback
allows the user to model rapidly those parts of the scene which are of
interest and to the level of detail required. The combination of
automated and manual reconstruction allows VideoTrace to model parts of
the scene not visible, and to succeed in cases where purely automated
approaches would fail..
Panoramas.dk My intention with this site is to make immersive panoramic images also called VR Photography more known among the general public. Interactive panoramas is a young media and as such it has for many
Pictosphere - the original
Ipix inventor?
Pictosphere® technology lets you grab your web audience's attention with intriguing, interactive imagery. With Pictosphere®, your customers can look up, down, and all around, at the touch of a mouse. Interactive imagery
Internet Pictures - iPix. IPIX developed the first commercially available system that produced full spherical, navigable images. In the late 1990s, IPIX still photography technology revolutionized the real estate industry by enabling virtual tours online. In 2004, the company launched a suite of 360® video products to address the government and commercial sectors growing need for superior surveillance solutions. Today IPIX leads the world in 360? imaging technology for both photography and video.
Metropole Worldwide, a leading real estate marketing and management solutions company, provides real estate professionals with turnkey solutions for promoting and managing properties and construction projects, online. Combining an innovative
360® camera system with web-based publishing tools, The Metropole360 Solution visually transports your clients from their computers to your properties worldwide. Metropole360 enables you to capture 360® views.
FlashWizard(R) is a tool for importing Flash files (swf) and generating the proper Object and Embed statements for any given .swf file.
3D Rendered AVI Example The Object and Embed statements are the code that you would put in your HTML pages to render the proper Height, Width, Background Color, Quality, Looping, and whether or not you want to display the Full or Small Flash Menu on Right Click. FlashWizard(R) reads the information from the swf file and will preview the file, save the swf file as it's own HTML page, copy to the clipboard for cut and paste to your webpage, or generate the Html that you can copy and paste yourself. FlashWizard(R) works in both Flash 5 and Flash MX file types.
3D
Real TimeTriangles in
Javascript.
This is demonstration of rendering arbitrary triangles (relatively fast) with
javascript/DOM/css (no images, flash, canvas tags or java applets). This is
known so far to work in IE6 (with some hacks to render transparent borders) and
IE7, as well as the latest versions of Firefox, Opera and Safari. This was
hacked together in 2 evenings, so there are some glitches and the code is not
great; it's just a proof of concept. This demo brought to you by
Uselesspickles.
Animated 3D models Extracted from single-camera video filming a real subject modeling an animation smoothly and naturally, Generates an animated 3D figure which can be viewed from multiple angles. The software can animate a variety of actions, such as walking, jumping, and even complicated acrobatics.
Cybia ... If you are looking for graphic resources then you have come to the right place! We develop commercial and freeware add-on products for use with Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Poser, Bryce plus many other 2D and 3D applications. Take a browse through all the plug-in filters, brushes, texture packs, utilities and other resources available. Also check out the link sections to find more quality products by other developers. Hope you enjoy the site ....
PhotoShape (Freeware 3D Image rotator) Put a new perspective on things by rotating images in three dimensions. Results can be used immediately or carried over to other applications.
More...
EbiNess. A system to retrieve and display in 3D the structure of the Internet (or as much as can be analysed). It should allow for an interesting perspective of the way pages are linked and clustered. It will hopefully also provide a more intuitive way of browsing.
Visualisation of how Search Engines and Keywords link together
Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modelling program whose few simple tools enable
you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions,
woodworking projects even space ships.
You can add details, textures and glass to your models, design with
dimensional accuracy, and place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.
Google SketchUp (free) is a great way to discover if 3D modelling is right for you. There is also a paid Pro Version available.
A.viary is a suite of rich
internet applications geared for artists of all genres. From image editing to
typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for everything. At Worth1000,
we are creating a complex ecosystem for artists and providing the world with
free, capable collaborative tools and an approach to collaboration and rights
management that will turn the marketplace for online art on its head:-
Aviary Blog
Aviary is a suite of web-based applications (RIAs) for people who create. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for artists of all genres.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:54:22 EST - The Spiro Curve tool in Aviary's online vector editor is extremely handy for making smooth shapes. However you can also make straight lines in the Spiro curve by pressing the "2" key before you set a vertex or after from the right click context menu. The Spiro Curve has four other vertex modes mapped to the 1-5 keys, that will let you make complex curved shapes easily.
Mizagorn is fabulous at helping and encouraging others with their mixes. Thus many times his own incredible mixes and beats don't get as much notice as they should. Here are some of our resent favorites. You should take a listen to his mixes cause they are all very awesome.
Another up and coming vector artist to watch,Thenoel has an amazing talent with gradients. Lush landscapes ripe with bold colors jump out at you and demand to be noticed. His drawing skills are superb and his coloring subtly romantic. We can't get enough of this amazing artist. Be sure to visit his gallery, you won't be sorry. Some favorites:
There could only be one challenge to feature this week :) the staff here at aviary challenged all of us to create a T-shirt design to go in there new T-shirt store and you really rose to the challenge with some truly awesome designs. some of our faves...
and congratulations to
Tip - Copy Hub Dimensions
Use the right click context menu for quick access to hub sizing. In the menu you can copy the current hubs dimensions or set it from a previously copied one. This is an easy way to match different hubs sizes in a file.
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:14:56 EST - Do you live in NYC? Are you looking for a new job? Are you awesome? Did your eagle eyes notice a new, tiny link that appeared at the bottom of aviary.com yesterday?
We're always looking for talented people to come work with us, but since we just got our job page up and running, this seemed like the perfect time to make the official announcement to our favorite people: you guys.
We're currently seeking a handful of people for very different positions with a wide range of qualifications, but a few things remain the same throughout: Whoever we hire needs to be enthusiastic, hard-working, friendly, local, and a perfect fit for our team.
We're currently seeking:
Office manager: This is the best title we could think of, but technically it's more of just a general "awesome person" position. Junior hacker: Requires a bit of experience, but you don't have to be an expert by any means. Design intern: Someone to help with tutorials as well as designing site elements. Social media intern: Must love twitter!
Check out the listings, and if you're interested (or have an amazing friend who's looking) email us at jobs[at]aviary.com! We look forward to hearing from you :)
Aviary is starting a t-shirt store so you will be able to get your hands on Awesome Aviary gear. To celebrate this occasion, we want to create a shirt from one of your designs! Submit your design as a comment in this thread. Plus, if you see an awesome design you would like as a t-shirt give it a thumbs up in the comments.
Some examples of designs by Meowza that would work great as t-shirts:
The deadline for submissions is Monday the 23rd by 5pm EST (GMT -4). The design can't contain more than 4 colors total so Raven creations work best for this. We will be adding an Aviary logo onto the design if it doesn't contain one already. If you do include an Aviary logo in your design it must be one of the official logos.You can find many of them here. Finally, please be aware that while we will take your votes into consideration, the Aviary staff will be choosing the final design.
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:49:22 EST - Today represents a very special day in the history of Aviary: We are launching an experimental simple app, Aviary Effects, that is targeted for people who don't really know how to use more advanced apps.
We made this new app with a very simple goal in mind: Make someone feel like they have amazing creative power with just a few simple mouse clicks.
We are initially launching on Facebook's app platform and will also host it on Aviary's website shortly as well as stand-alone entity (or as a filter option within our image editor tools). You will be able to turn any of your or your friend's Facebook photos (defaulting to your profile picture) into stand alone pieces of art work.
I used the following photo of myself and Marilyn Monroe (on one of our infamous dates) to illustrate the power of some of the effects.
Check out what I was able to do with Aviary: Effects on my photo!
Sketch Effect Turn your photo into a hyper-realistic pencil sketch drawing:
We have a whole slew of amazing effects planned with the level of Aviary polish you have come to know and love. Our criteria in developing these were that they were fast, fun and as beautiful as possible. We also threw an added bonus of letting you watch your effect build your creation right in front of you - so you can watch it made in real time by our team of hyper computer sparrows.
This app is completely free to use and available now. You can even play with your friends' photos! If you have a Facebook account, go give Aviary Effects a try and let us know what you think in the Aviary forums!
Man-made objects and tools are often designed and created based on a specific need. They are produced to help a certain group of people obtain or achieve a specific goal.
What happens when we start seeing these tools and objects in a different way?
A month ago it was pouring rain and since it's summer I tend to forget about bad weather in the city. I went to have lunch and came back to the office soaking wet, and thought for a second about how good it would feel to take off my shoes and put on some nice dry ones. It was my first week at the office and I was still a little shy about everything, but I knew I had to take my shoes off no matter what! (PS: I sit next to my boss.)
I went to the restroom to think how I could solve this little problem, took my shoes off and tried drying them with a paper towel (of course it didn't make any difference besides filling my shoes with pieces of paper). I stopped and thought, Ah! This is it! I am making myself Bounty slippers! I stepped out of the restroom, got some tape, went back into the restroom and made my comfy, dry new slippers. To my surprise, my boss complimented me on them, and applauded what he calls my "MacGyver" qualities!
I'm writing about this story because I work in the creative business. I know what it's like to want all those pretty icons on your desktop and all the latest Mac products to design. But the truth is, if you are really someone creative, you work with what you have and what's available for you in that moment. The lack of tools or budget should never keep anyone from creating. If you can look at things without underestimating them or judging their purpose, you can probably find new unexpected solutions!
Myna Mix of the Week: Cyberwolf joined us way back in November 2009 (which is a long time ago in bird years!), and has created some Myna mixes that you have to listen to over and over again and then finally give up and download. One of our favorites of his is called "Get Up". This is a great metal oriented score with special effects and Amy Lee style (who?) keyboards that you will want to listen to while enjoying this week's Birdbath.
Can you load custom audio tracks into Roc? Can you set up cascading and parent/child tracks? Can you make several Roc tracks, then import them all into yet another totally new Roc beat? Rootstorm lets us know that the answer to all those questions is a resounding "yes!". Keep your ears open on this really really cool mix containing the acoustic drum kit, piano chords, a superb bass line and just oh so much more!
In the true spirit of Aviary, this weeks artist of the week, James3enjoys the Peacock challenges, using the opportunity to create some unique images. Always seeming to push himself further with each creation, James' gallery shows an artist taking chances and having fun. If you are not familiar with James3, it will be well worth your time to check out his gallery. Some favorites:
This weeks challenges are set by staff wandercreatures DIY Panda & Elephant and Aviary Egg Papertoy these challenges are so much fun you really must join in :)
Tip - On screen adjustments
This is a new feature that was quietly added into Peacock, Aviary's effects editor. You can set the Coons Patch hub via on-screen controls! No more fiddling with the anchor and tangent sliders. To start using these controls set the hub's dimensions to 100% by right clicking on it to bring up the context menu and select Resize to 100%. You should now see the control handles that will allow you to manipulate the Coons Patch mesh.
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:48:02 EST - This is a new feature that was quietly added into Peacock, Aviary's effects editor. You can set the Coons Patch hub via on-screen controls! No more fiddling with the anchor and tangent sliders. To start using these controls set the hub's dimensions to 100% by right clicking on it to bring up the context menu. Then select Resize to 100%. You should now see the control handles that will allow you to manipulate the Coons Patch mesh.
This weeks artist of the week is a relatively new vector artist namedYinyang_1. Although he considers himself inexperienced, we are quite impressed and delighted with his natural affinity for Raven. Certainly an artist to watch, each new creation shows how he learns and extends his skills into the next image. Citing the works of Mpeutz and Meowza as inspiriation, we believe he will inspire all who see his art. Stop by his gallery, leave him a comment so he will continue to create his beautiful vector art. Some favorites:
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Staff Picks Are Back!
This weeks challenge is Coons Patch challenge set by redstar. Mario has made a change to the guides that determine the shape of the Coons Patch. The change gives us much more control and this is a real fun challenge so come on in and join the fun
Simple Character Design - Raven - Beginner How to Make the Aviary Egg Papertoy - Raven - Beginner
Tip - Nudge objects
You can move or nudge objects with the arrow keys in Phoenix and Raven. Each press of the arrow key will move the object 1 pixel in the direction of the arrow. While holding down the shift key the object will be moved 10 pixels. This is useful when you want to offset several objects by the same amount.
Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:06:56 EST - Exciting news, everyone! Our much-requested Staff Picks page is back in action on the site.
The Staff Picks will be hand chosen by us, which means that even though we'll be scouring the site for our favorite creations, there's no way we can possibly see them all. The best way you can help is to get our attention by starring any amazing creations you come across while you're on Aviary. Remember, you can look in the forums, search by topic (or by color, or description), browse the undiscovered creations, look through your friends' feeds, etc.
We hope this will be yet another way for you to find awesome artists, creations, and inspiration!
The 3D Abstract Art Group. (deviant ART). Created to entertain, inspire, and empower the artist in all of us. Founded in August 2000,
deviant ART is a large online
social network for artists and art enthusiasts with over 13 million registered members, attracting 35 million unique visitors per month. As a community
destination,
deviant ART is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts. The site's vibrant social network environment receives
over 100,000 daily uploads of original art works ranging from traditional media, such as painting and sculpture, to digital art, pixel art, films and anime.
Microsoft® Photosynth® takes your photos, mashes them together and recreates a 3D scene
out of them that anyone can view and move around in. Different than static
photos and video, Photosynth allows you to explore details of places, objects,
and events unlike any other media. You can’t stop video, move around and zoom in
to check out the smallest details, but with Photosynth you can. And you can’t
look at a photo gallery and immediately see the spatial relation between the
photos, but with Photosynth you can. A synth is referring to a stitched
collection of photos, “synth” is an abbreviation of Photosynth for brevity. some
of the best Photosynths are actually panoramas. (A series of overlapping photos
shot from a single location.) Microsoft Research has developed a world class
panoramic image stitcher called
Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE for short), and Microsoft wanted to
make this technology available to our community. The latest version of ICE has a
“publish to Photosynth” feature, and we’ve built support for uploading,
exploring and viewing ICE panoramas throughout Photosynth. Photosynth requires
an internet connection to create and upload your synth. A high-speed connection
is recommended.
MetaVerseRoadmap
The MVR is a comprehensive 10-year technology forecast and visioning survey of
3D Web technologies, markets, and applications.
Chaoscope is a 3D strange
attractors rendering software.
OGLE (i.e.
OpenGLExtractor)
is an open source software package by the
Eyebeam
OpenLab that allows for the capture and re-use of 3D geometry data from 3D
graphics applications running on Microsoft Windows. It works by observing the
data flowing between 3D applications and the system's OpenGL library, and
recording that data in a standard 3D file format. In other words, a screen
grab or view source operation for 3D data.
Got 3D glasses leftover from the Superbowl? Time to break them out! You will need cheap 3d glasses from
television promotions or you can grab them off Ebay for this
demonstration.
NOTE: Get an error message that says monitor not found? That's okay,
just hit OK and continue.
3DMiracle - software for creation stereograms and 3D movies (animated stereograms) from depth masks. 3DMiracle and 3DMonster are Powerfull tools for creation of single image stereograms, also known as SIRDS, hollusion and Magic Eye. It supports up to 24 bits color bit rate and output stereogram size up to 10000x10000. 04 May 2004 new version v1.73 was released. 3DMonster - tool for creating depth masks for stereograms from 3D objects, imported from 3DS format. 04 May 2004 build 1.54 was released. It is compartible with 3DMiracle and the majority of other Single Image Stereography programs. Both programs are shareware.
Download trial versions for free.
3D Stereo, Stereo 3-D pictures
3d Stereograms
Some 3d Stero Pictures from Starship-enterprisesWeb3D Consortium. Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication. To develop an architecture and tools to represent and communicate 3D scenes and objects in a fully hardware and OS independent way. X3D is an ISO approved, extensible XML format ensures data durability, data interoperability, and a way for developers to port data between multiple representations and formats, to leverage the separation of the presentation (rendering engine) from the content (the X3D file), as well as the ability to define high-level markup tags for application-specific needs
3D Glasses on line
3D Photo Maker. To Create a 3D image, you need to take two shots of a still set object captured with a small horizontal shift. Usually the distance must be about 2-3 inches to have the right scene.
Both shots are inserted into the program and next second a 3D image is created in the location which you define on your PC. Please note that in order to watch the output 3D picture it is necessary to use stereo anaglyph glasses.
Free contains no spyware or adware. It’s clearly free and absolutely safe to install and run.
The Blu-ray Disc Association today published
details of the final specification for 3D-enhanced Blu-ray video. Simply
titled Blu-ray 3D, the format will send a stereoscopic 1080p image but,
despite the extra data, will only use about 50 percent more data than a
traditional, 2D-only image. The relatively efficient storage is helped
by an efficient variant of the H.264 video code known as Multiview Video
Coding (MVC) that is also backwards-compatible with 2D devices
Stereoskopie 3D Video These
videoclips were shot with two digital DV
camcorders SONY (DCR-PC-8). To control the camcorders a special cable connected
remote is used, connected to the LANC jacks of the camcorders. Some of the clips
were shot using the original SONY InfraRed remote - these clips are
unfortunately not 100% synced.
The contents are generally heavy (hundreds of MB and max. 5 Mbps) and require broad band connection and relatively high performance PC's
to appreciate them via smooth streaming.
3D
Anaglyph Camera Attachment. This device lets you take 3D anaglyph photos and
movies with an ordinary camera. The parts cost about $30. It's pretty simple to
build and you don't need any special software or camera equipment.
Calit2 Visualization Team Develops 3-D Technology from Modified HDTV LCD
Screens <<<More... If you're the kind of person who happens to have a number of LCD HDTV's
lying around, we suggest you give University of California, San Diego's
Calit2 Visualization Team a ring. Researchers from the group have
constructed a three-column, nine-panel 3D display using flat screens
from JVC,
stereoscopic glasses, and "game PCs with high end NVIDIA game engines."
Dubbed NexCAVE, it's a much more inexpensive version of the its
projector-powered StarCAVE used for data analysis, although its range is
more limited -- on the plus side, however, since this is LCD, it can be
used in bright rooms. At 6,000 x 1,500 pixel, the resolution isn't as
mind-blowing as we'd hope, but the team is currently building a version
for Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University for Science and Technology
(KAUST) that's 7 columns (totaling 21 panels) and 15,000 x 1,500
resolution. If nothing else, any chance we can play Mirror's Edge on this? Video demonstration of the nine-panel rig after the break.
Look, we've seen an
awful lot of HDTVs in our day -- one lap around the average
CEDIA show floor makes
your local Best Buy look awfully small -- and to this day we've yet to
put our peepers on a more stunning set than Mitsubishi's
LaserVue HDTV. Sure,
it's fat, ugly and expensive, but the image is otherworldly. Before
Mitsu can even take the
logical next step, a California startup has arisen to introduce what
it calls the world's first laser-based 3D HDTV. We're talking 1080p 3D
like you've never seen before, with CTO Edmund Sandberg noting that this
production is smoother than RealD, Dolby, film and pretty much every
other
3D solution. The secret here is in the speed; this set is so fast
that the image "no longer needs to flash from one eye to the other," and
no flashing should equate to no headaches. Too bad there's no planned
release date, but we're still cautiously optimistic for a sneak peek (in
addition to the video past the break) at CES 2010.
Wiggle Stereoscopy Create 3D-ish images. With wiggle stereoscopy, the 2 images are aligned so that the "subject" overlaps, and then the right and left images are alternated quickly,
may look like filtering and could cause an epileptic seizure. Past a certain frequency, the brain interprets the alternations as parallax motion, which creates the illusion of depth. (It's
important to note that this is not really a 3D image, but rather a visual
trick.)
Free VRML Tutorials and examples of developing virtual world with Virtual Reality Modeling Language.
VRML Virtual Reality Modelling Language (Crystallographer's Guide)
VRML Overview by
San Diego State University Believe it or not, you don't need to install a high powered, memory guzzling, super expensive, authoring software application to begin making your own VRML Objects. You can create VRML by simply typing code using NOTEPAD. ... Unfortunately, books written about VRML are not nearly as informative as websites. ... Try this
VRML Tutorial (zip file) . Follow the easy steps to create a real live VRML Object
3D Engines List. The 3D Engines List tries to provide an overview of software 3D engines for realtime graphics and VR on various platforms. Each engine is reviewed with list of features, contact information (email, link to homepage) and links to download a demo or the source.
Quick
Time Virtual Reality. This site is designed as a free gallery for visitors
to view tours, and photographers to display their work. We charge neither
photographers or do we charge viewers, this site is 100% for fun only
Motion Capture Lab, ACCAD promotes collaboration with researchers and artists from within as well as outside of The
Ohio State University. This lab allows us to capture human, animal, or other motion, recreate this motion in three dimensional space, and then use the resulting data to do many things from making a virtual character dance across a stage to using the data to compare different people's walks to using the data to drive different computer generated objects and attributes in order to create never before seen results.
Web 3D viewers and browsersWeb3D Consortium. Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication. To develop an architecture and tools to represent and communicate 3D scenes and objects in a fully hardware and OS independent way. X3D is an ISO approved, extensible XML format ensures data durability, data interoperability, and a way for developers to port data between multiple representations and formats, to leverage the separation of the presentation (rendering engine) from the content (the X3D file), as well as the ability to define high-level markup tags for application-specific needs
VRML Editor - VrmlPad is a professional editor for VRML programming. Key time - saving features include powerful editorial abilities and visual support for the scene tree and resource operations.
Free VRML Viewer Easy-to-use 3D visualization software is fast, high-fidelity, secure, using our
Visual Rights® technology, and free! ModelPress Reader is a free viewer for VRML files and the 3DF format. Use our free ModelPress Publisher to dramatically compress and rights-protect VRML files converted to 3DF. What's 3DF? Our rights-protected content sealed 3D format (3DF) provides embedded and persistent content protection. 3DF files are 70-98% percent smaller than the original VRML file. Share the design - keep control.
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Windows PCs in each subsection.
IPIX Corporation immersive imaging technology. Patented IPIX technology produces spherical images that let you feel like you are actually inside the scene.
O3D An open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the
browser.
This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.
Click here to open the Snow Stack live demo. Arrow keys to move,
“Space” to toggle magnify mode. Mouse click on an image to view on
Flickr. You need to “right arrow” on the right wall to get more photos
loaded in.
Many thanks to
Simon Fraser for his help with performance profiling Snow Stack.
And yes, OS X Leopard with
WebKit nightly will also do accelerated 3D transforms now,
just like
iPhone Safari.
Total Immersion. Augmented reality is an
interactive experience where virtual components are dynamically merged into a live video stream in real time. Think: a virtual new concept car in the palm of your hand or a magic mirror where you can see yourself wearing as many pair of glasses you want without having to try them on.
Andrew Lim of
recombu.com used an HTC Magic running Google Street View, safety goggles, and some cardboard to fashion one of
the coolest HMD this side of
Lawnmowerman. [Thanks,
Andrew!]
Using an
HTC Magic and
Google Street View we've made a simple pair of virtual reality
goggles that let you immerse yourself in distant locations. You can also
use these goggles with augmented reality apps -- although you probably
don't want to walk around with them all day long.
Street
View from Google 360-degree, street-level images. Move about
maps and and view actual photographs of those places, Take a virtual take a look
around.
We've seen cameras do all kinds of crazy things.
DIY 3D photography,
augmented reality, and now this demo by Qi Pan shows how an ordinary
webcam can model objects in 3D.
I'm in no position to discuss the amount of technical wizardry in play here, but I do think the interface is really great. Look at how it
overlays scanned textures on the person's hand to create a transparency effect. Neato!
It's definitely a whiz-bang application, but like augmented reality, I'm not sure how much I need it. Someone needs to figure out how to scan
and print a sandwich. Now that would be something. [Pro Forma via
Boing Boing]
Here's a quick screencast to show what a 3D PDF is - in last week's
Weekend Project Bre showed you how to make an awesome spud gun - in the
special PDF we sent out (RSS
2.0 /
iTunes) you could also interact with the spud gun model in 3D. MAKE
worked with our pals at Alibre design to create the 3D PDF and the
feedback has been incredible so we're going to do more over the next few
months... YouTube video of the 3D PDF is
here, or just
view the MP4 -
Link.
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Animated
stereoviews of old Japan. (Switching left to right and back). In
the late 19th and early 20th century, enigmatic photographer
T.
Enami (1859-1929) captured a number of
3D stereoviews depicting life in Meiji-period Japan.
Woman claims she became pregnant after watching a porno.
US military man Erick Jhonson came home from a stint in Iraq to find
that his wife was pregnant. Clearly he assumed she had an affair, but
his wife Jennifer claims the “other man” was actually someone a little
less physical.
Posted 07 May 2010, so not an April’s Fool Joke?
SynthEyes™, a camera tracking (a.k.a.
match-moving) and stabilization software application offering high performance
and a wealth of features at an affordable price. Use SynthEyes for animated
critter insertion, fixing shaky shots, virtual set extension, 3D stereoscopic
production, architectural previews, accident reconstruction, virtual product
placement, face and body capture, and more. Also
Video special effects, tips. Video Tools & Video Utilities
3D Display Technology. Holographic displays. Three Dimensional Displays. 3D without glasses.
3D Printers. Three dimensional printers. Printing Physical Objects.
Making things by printing them out. Fast prototype, fast prototyping
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