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.
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.
Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling 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 modeling is right for you.
Doodle
4 Google (Good Luck, sic) Design competition for Britain's 10 million school
children. Design a Google Logo.
GoogleMapBuilder,
a spreadsheet-to-map utility. The first DIY tool on the web that allows you to
create an interactive Google Map on your website with
"point-and-click" ease.
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.
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
360 Degrees of Freedom Create the ultimate virtual tour. Everything you need for professional results in minutes.
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 ExampleI 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.
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.
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:-
Great method actors like Emma Watson (of Harry Potter fame) will embed themselves so deeply in a role that they will look, dress and act in part non-stop for the duration of filming, even when the cameras aren't rolling.
Now as Emma Watson prepares for her most challenging role to date, 57-year-old male truck driver Roscuro in the upcoming film, The Tale of Despereaux, she asked Aviary's resident plastic surgeon Meowza to perform the emergency sexandectomy.
This work made heavy use of distorting, blend modes and smoothing.
Sources:
Kudos to Aerosmith for providing the background vocals!
Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
We have joined the Deck, the premiere advertising network for reaching creative, web and design professionals.
The Deck advertisements only appear on Aviary's blog sections (both product blog and idea blog), not within the Aviary website (or applications as you work).
We are not a big fan of relying on advertising as a business model in the current economy. However, we do view partnering with the Deck as a wonderful synergy: We really like the network of 29 sites and blogs that are a part of the Deck, the ideology behind how they run ads and who they partner with.
The rules are: they only run ads from products that they personally use; 1 inobtrusive ad per page at a time; advertisers pay Cost Per Influence, instead of for page views or clicks. (meaning, if you advertise on The Deck but for the perceived influence the networks' viewers have), and they are very selective about which publishers can join.
We've been extremely fortunate to surround ourselves with team members, advisers and partners of the highest caliber in terms of their experience, reputation and accomplishments. Our new adviser, Patrick Lor is no different, having been the first employee at the very successful iStockPhoto.com in 2001, where he served as EVP and director until its sale in 2006. Together with founder Bruce Livingstone, he turned a community of photographers into an innovative and disruptive business model where the community could profit together with the company.
And a successful model it is. In 2006, iStockPhoto sold to Getty Images for $50 million. Last year, iStockPhoto had $72 million in revenue, sharing $20.9 million of that with its community. Amazing. It's exactly that kind of cooperative partnership with the artistic community that we're attracted to.
Oh and in case you are wondering: Patrick is the caricature circled in red from our About page:
We're super excited to announce that we are winners in CNet's 2008 Webware 100 Awards in the Publishing and Photography category!
I've got to admit that the idea of bragging about winning an intangible award makes us feel a little weird, especially as I'm not normally a fan of online awards sites (and no, the irony of my founding Worth1000 isn't lost on me). But we really respect the way that Rafe and everyone at CNet run the entire process. Sites don't have to pay to be included in the nomination process, there is some professional editorial preselection and the rest is up to the Internet. Very Cool.
Here's a partial snippet of the email we received from CNet that explains how we were chosen:
The 2008 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications on the Web today. After receiving more than 5,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, our editors selected 300 finalists. But the Web's users decided the final cut, voting nearly two million times to select the 100 top products--10 each in of 10 categories--from our list of 300 finalists.
So we really have our awesome user base at Aviary and Worth1000 to thank for helping us go all the way!
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners - we were in amazingly good company.
One of the most fantastic things about building a suite of tools around a community, instead of the other way around, is that users are always willing to pitch in and help out others with tutorials and forum assistance. It's our plan to build our applications with a very deep set of community tools, built around forums, wiki-documentation, chat, user-made tutorials and sharable workspaces.
Aviary super star Meowza has already begun paving the way with more than a dozen "photo-phixing" tutorials for other users of Phoenix. Got a specific question on how to make a technique in Phoenix? Ask and ye shall receive.
Aviary is excited to announce the launch of its newest application, Dodo, the web-based time machine.
We've been working feverishly around the clock on this new tool which will allow you to age and de-age people, places and things from any browser with Flash 9 enabled.
Dodo is incredibly simple to use: Just upload an input picture, choose between different settings that might affect the aging process (i.e. amounts of alcohol and tobacco consumed), set a year and hit generate. Obviously results will vary, but under strenuous laboratory analysis we have found a margin of error of only +-11% (unprecedented performance for time machines in general, let alone web-apps).
Dodo automatically detects the subject matter (noting the difference between people places and things) and chooses how to age it, using the Astley-Zonday time displacement theorem with accurate results.
Dodo can also be used on scenery. For example, Dodo changed this scene from an ordinary spring landscape to winter, using Dodo's built-in database of geographically accurate weather history.
Additionally, Dodo is not limited to animate objects, and scenes; It works equally well on inanimate objects, predicting what they might look like at specified dates in the past (and future).
We see market opportunity for Dodo across several mediums, not just graphic design. We imagine it will be useful in everything from tracking down long missing children, to determining if a girlfriend will end up looking like her mother, to deceiving potential dates in the personals section of Craigslist.
To access Dodo, sign up for an Aviary account at http://a.viary.com. If you already have an account, please log out and back in to see it appear in your tool list.
Update April 2nd, 2008: This was an April Fools joke. Dodo doesn't exist. Now can you please stop e-mailing us asking for access to it? :)
Editor's Note: with the launch of Adobe Photoshop Express, came a flurry of concerned emails from friends and family asking "Have you seen this? Are you concerned for Aviary?" My response each time was 'no - they cater to different markets.' They serve red-eye reducer consumers. We serve more advanced hobbyist creators.
But pictures are worth one thousand words, so we asked Aviary superstar Meowza to do an actual comparison against some of the more well known Flash web apps (Photoshop Express, Picnik, Splashup, Fotoflexer and Aviary) to see whether or not he could recreate one of his fantastic Aviary creations.
Although this is obviously biased in that it was written by an Aviary employee, we asked Meowza to do a comparison from the point of view of an unaffiliated artist. The opinions expressed in this post are entirely his own. Now please stop mailing us, Mom. /Note
By now, I'm sure you've heard enough how much Aviary rocks. And if you haven't... Aviary rocks! But I'll bet you're asking how it holds up against some of the other online photo editors out there.
It's funny you should ask. Why, just today we decided to put some of these programs through a rigorous gauntlet of image editing challenges for a direct comparison: Tests that would let us compare some simple, but key, elements in photo manipulation: simple copy and pasting, masking, cloning, and blending to see what was really possible to do in each.
So naturally, the first image that came to mind was a tooth-filled cherry facing off against a bee in an epic showdown.
I used the following sources:
First, here's the image I created in Aviary's image editor, Phoenix, relying heavily on the Disortion Tool and layer masking.
As you can see, the end result is pretty seamless.
Next, I tried to create the same image in Fotoflexer.
The first thing I noticed was the lack of a layer menu, so it would be difficult to work on an image using multiple sources and keeping them all managed within the program's invisible layer structure.
Their brush and eraser also seems to be missing an option to adjust hardness levels making it very difficult to blend two images together without leaving a noticeable edge around the elements.
This is as close as I got to creating the same image in Fotoflexer:
But the meat of the program runs in its quick and easy-to-use automated features.
A user could run a photo through the program and quickly crop for web, or add a number of effects to their image with the numerous effect filters included (ie. one-click blemish/wrinkle removal).
My favorite of these features are the simple to use distortion tools.
An example is the "Bulge" tool. I was impressed with how quickly I was able to run a photo of a person through the program and within seconds, with just a few clicks, "fatten" them up for fun (or shed a few pounds using the "Pinch" tool!), as in the example below with Tara Reid.
For comparison, I decided to try the same effect in Phoenix. Because Phoenix doesn't incorporate an automated "fattening" feature, we needed to go the manual route. First, by copy and pasting segments of the figure's body onto new layers, then using a combination of the Distortion and Free Transform tools to skew and enlarge her body parts.
Then finishing it off by finely tuning each segment with the Liquify tool, I was able to come pretty close to the one created in fotoflexer.
Despite this particular effect taking a more involved approach in Phoenix, for the in-depth, intensive user, the features within will allow much greater control over every aspect of their image.
But for the casual user who needs a quick and painless way to spruce up a photo, if you can click a mouse, fotoflexer is an extremely easy way to go.
Upon first impression, it's an impressive looking program with an interface very similar to Photoshop. I was able to recreate the example image very close to the one I put together in Phoenix with just a little smudging apparent, due to the familiarity of the layout and tools.
After using programs like Photoshop, you tend to take for granted all the features that some other graphics programs don't incorporate. Simple things like the ability to sort layers by drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, and a few of the handy features such as layer masking and the clone stamp also seem to be absent.
For the spoiled artist, the one who lacks any sense of patience (Hey, that's me!), who is too used to the conveniences of the high end image editors out there, the absence of a number of features greatly slows down the working process.
For an online image editor, Splashup is quite impressive and a user should be able to create a wide range of images within it.
A simple, but essential, part of most photo manipulating is the ability to blend multiple images. And the necessary tools included in Slashup makes key image editing elements such as background removal, object swapping, or more importantly, putting Colin Farrell on Tara Reid's body, a simple job.
Comparing off of Splashup's strengths, I needed to see how the same effect could be pulled off in Phoenix.
Because of basic similarities between the two, the process of creating the image in both programs was the same, using the transform tool to adjust and situate the face, then simply softening up the edges and color adjusting to blend with Tara Reid's body. Therefore, the final image created in Phoenix is nearly identical.
The most noticeable difference didn't strike me until I screwed up. And I do that a lot.
Whereas in Splashup, I restarted the image about three times after I'd pull a bonehead move, like cutting off too much of Colin's chin. Admittedly, my own fault and not the fault of Splashup.
Not learning my lesson the first time around, I pulled off the same mistakes when attempting the image in Phoenix. But unlike Splashup, Phoenix' Layer Mask feature allowed me to "draw" back in the areas I had foolishly erased earlier, since layer masks never completely eliminate areas that are masked.
Though absent of a number of convenient features, Splashup seems to have the potential to boast some serious editing power. As it stands compared to it's desktop predecessors, Splashup is still a good, free, online alternative for layer-based image editing duty.
It's not a fair comparison, as Picnik is not intended for this kind of use. It does not have a layer system and the ability to edit multiple images at once.
But like Fotoflexer, Picnik is an excellent editor for quick, single image editing. The best feature in Picnik is the conveniently integrated system where one can upload their images to a number of photo sharing and online community sites such as Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, etc. instantaneously.
And with 40+ automated effects that range from simple red-eye removal, to more of the fun effects such as mimicking a photograph from the 1960s, it makes fixing up that old family photo, cross-processing your favorite portrait, or more importantly, putting Tara Reid amidst a snowstorm, a breeze.
And, of course, I just had to see if I could mimic some of these same effects in our friend, Phoenix, as well. Taking this image of snow falling:
I simply placed it on a new layer over the image of Tara Reid and applied the "Screen" layer blend mode, then bumped up the contrast. And this is what I got:
As in the comparison with Fotoflexer, the simplicity and automation in Picnik allows any user to pull off any of the number of effects featured within in seconds. But again, the features in Phoenix allow for much greater control and potential in the creation of images. It's a tradeoff of simplicity versus control that defines the market each tool caters to.
Finally, I checked out Adobe's newly beta released online editor, Photoshop Express.
As a Photoshop enthusiast, I was very excited at the prospect of Adobe's first foray into the online digital image editing world. Upon first impression, I was very disappointed in the lack of layer system and the inability to merge multiple pictures for composites at once.
So, just as in Picnik, we weren't able to recreate the cherry photo in Photoshop Express as we did earlier. Again, I ended up stuck here:
Of course, it wasn't Adobe's intent to introduce an online application with all the features of Photoshop but rather an alternate solution for quick photo correcting. And in that regard, Photoshop Express does get the job done.
With simple photo correcting features such as White Balance, Exposure, and more, we were able to easily take a photo of, you guessed it, Tara Reid and with a single click of the mouse, remove her unslightly red-eye blemishes.
Again, we were able to do the same adjustments in Phoenix, albeit with a more involved approach playing around with the Hue/Saturation level of the selected pupil areas.
But, red eye removal? Why not, eye removal!
Of course with Phoenix' layering system, the user is able to merge and edit a multitude of photos together to build basically anything within the realm of their imagination.
The biggest difference between Phoenix and the other online editors I tried was that Phoenix was created with the serious artist in mind whereas the others seemed to be geared more towards the casual user, the user who needs a quick image crop/photo processing for web.
And in that regard, applications such as Fotoflexer and Picnik, do excel.
Of course, Phoenix still allows for minor image enhancement features and cropping as in the other programs, but the depth of the features in Phoenix and potential to create in-depth composite art puts it in a separate class more akin to desktop software. Aviary's unparalleled collaboration system, rights management and built-in storage gives the user added incentive to use the program over its desktop predecessors.
But don't take my word for it. Actually, yes. Yes, you may.
When we first envisioned Peacock (our "pattern generator"), we only saw it as a tool to create tilable patterns out of graphics for printing on merchandise. However, as it developed we realized there was potential for so much more. We now see that users can not only use it to make incredible patterns, they can also make photo-realistic illustrations and pictures. Most exciting, is that they can also use it to build reusable filters that will work in other applications like Phoenix, our image editor. Oh yeah, and this is entirely browser-based.
This time around Aviary superstar Meowza shows how to build a comic-book-a-lizer filter. He uses it to convert standard stock footage of a woman screaming for her life, into a cheery comic book illustration of a woman screaming for her life. And then performs the same courtesy on the damsel's gunman.
This filter made heavy use of threshold, masking, simple shapes and melting nodes.
Our plan is to allow users to create and sell their filters to other users. So if you make something really cool - like a neon glow filter, you can charge whatever you like and compile your filter so the canvas composition stays transparent to the buyer. Your filter would then be available to them to use in other Aviary apps!
Kudos to Black Eyed Peas for the musical accompaniments and to mario, meowza, shadyalaska, pal670, Wniebowziety, madameava, hamstu, oxidus, Nicky666 and Roberto for the example gallery!
Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
Hey eggheads, it's been a whirlwind here since we opened the doors here a bit and we've been thrilled with some of the fantastic press and buzz we've received around the web, from USA Today to 5 articles in the NY Daily News and a whole bunch of Digg homepages. Rather than bore you with yet another exciting video it's time to make our publicist* happy and share some of the awesome mainstream coverage we've received since opening our doors a crack in early February.
Here's a sampling of other recent press that have mentioned Aviary. We're compiling a separate full list - which will include non-English articles as well - if you've written about us and want to be included drop us a note at aviary(-a-)worth1000.com.
Aviary (a.viary.com) has generated quite a bit of buzz lately, and it has certainly been warranted...The collaboration model in Aviary is quite possibly one of the most innovative parts of its architecture.
...rather than requiring a relatively new computer to run Windows Vista with Office 2007 and Photoshop CS3 you can run a lighter OS, with Google Docs and A.Viary.com, if you have chosen to shift your your workload online.
Flash-based apps are finally beginning to compete head-on with standard software. Many new Flash apps aren't just different. They're better. Even rich media apps will fall. Case in point: the Aviary suite of graphics apps, coming out soon from the team at Worth1000. The first app, the image editor Phoenix... gives you a strong indication that the need for expensive apps licensed on a per-PC basis is ending.
After making Photoshop and such a weapon in the hands of thousands, those lunatics at Worth 1000 (we snark because we love) are transcending the current software's limitations with their nifty new Aviary toolset. The components are all in beta right now, and if you can get on the testing invite list the options look delicious -- image editors, palette generators, a desktop publishing tool, a font editor, and much more. Artists, designers and video folk are strongly encouraged to rattle the doorknobs over there.
Aviary is the newest of the apps that we believe will change 2008. The demo of their first app is just amazing... Of the 80-100 demos at the NY Tech Meetup I've seen in the last year, this was the first one to receive massive noise and excitement after the demo.
The folks behind Aviary, an ambitious project which consists of an online artist community/marketplace as well as a suite of web based design/photo editing/typography related tools, have thought of a clever way to advertise the possibilities of their impressive software.
I've been really impressed after playing around with the tools. While by no means a Photoshop master, the image editor Pheonix has all the functionality I've come to expect from Adobe's image editor.
At Aviary, we like to ask the hard-hitting questions most journalists shy away from. Most importantly: We can put man on the moon, but we don't have frigging flying cars yet?!
Luckily, we don't just identify the problems - we also solve them.
This time around Aviary's resident industrial designer Meowza has drawn up a plan to unclog the world's highways and put flying metal projectiles in the hands of every man, woman and child.
These works made heavy use of color adjustments, blend modes, painting, transforming and sourcing.
Kudos to Parliament and Arcade Fire for the musical accompaniments!
Standard disclaimer: For those of you new to this blog, this was not created in Photoshop. It was created in Aviary, a suite of online web applications. You can sign up for the current beta at http://a.viary.com.
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.
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 StereogramsSome 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
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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IPIX Corporation immersive imaging technology. Patented IPIX technology produces spherical images that let you feel like you are actually inside the scene.
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