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)
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.
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
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 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.
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.
3D Display Technology. Holographic displays. Three Dimensional Displays. 3D without glasses. Also Printers. 3D Printers. Plotters
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.
Shawn751 Let me introduce you to Shawn751, he is making some incredible images in Peacock and Raven. Shawn has been overlooked for too long, you don't want to miss his gallery.
Tip - Break and Split Path in Raven There is a difference between the Break Path and the Split path in Raven. Break Path divides the selected vertex in two. This splits a closed path making an open path, and can only be used on closed paths. While Split Path divides the selected vertex in two. This splits the path into two different objects, and only can be performed on open paths.
If you use Google Apps for Domains or Google Apps for Enterprise, you can now add Aviary to your apps account (for all users) effective immediately. It will then appear right in Google's universal navigation bar.
Note: Aviary can only be added by the domain administrator, so please make sure to tell whomever is in charge of your organization.
To add Aviary to your Google Apps account, click the button below!
The Aviary team made this fun video to introduce Aviary to Google Apps users and help celebrate the launch. Awesome job to everyone involved, especially Meowza and Mpeutz!
The awesomely fun press release!
Aviary Now Available through the Google Apps Marketplace
Google Doc users can now easily access Aviary's rich image and audio editing capabilities
NEW YORK (Mar. 9, 2010) – Aviary today announced its suite of design apps is now available in the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. Aviary is a feature-rich web application suite that allows users to edit and create images, vectors and audio files from anywhere in the world with just a browser and an internet connection. Now with native integration with Google Apps™, Aviary allows any Google Apps™ user to edit images and audio for marketing materials, take product screenshots for websites, create logos, and more.
"Aviary is committed to bringing the power of cloud computing to anyone with any multimedia design needs, so integrating with Google Apps was a logical choice for us," says Avi Muchnick, company CEO. "By adding Aviary to the Google Apps Marketplace, we've made it extremely easy for Google Apps customers to access a powerful multimedia design web application suite that works seamlessly with their existing document collaboration platform using OpenID."
"We are very happy to have Aviary in the Google Apps Marketplace," notes Scott McMullan, Partner Lead for Google Apps. "Through the Google Apps Marketplace, software vendors like Aviary are helping us build a rich ecosystem of integrated apps that seamlessly work with and extend Google Apps to meet more business needs. The ability to edit images and audio directly from Google Docs is the kind of innovation we're excited to see coming from our developer community."
Aviary, Inc makes seven lightweight, powerful design applications that can be accessed through the browser. By integrating directly with Google Apps, Aviary is extending the productivity of the Google Docs suite by adding collaborative multimedia capabilities including image editing, audio editing, color management and more. Aviary will have free introductory pricing for Enterprise users. To learn more, visit www.aviary.com/googleenterprise.
The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy for more than 2 million Google Apps customers to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services. By integrating with user account and application data stored in Google Apps, these cloud applications provide a simpler user experience, increase business efficiency, and reduce administrative overhead. To learn more, visit google.com/enterprise/marketplace.
Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations. With Google Apps, users can use applications such as Gmail™ webmail service, Google Talk™ instant messaging service, Google Calendar™ calendaring service, Google Docs™ program, Google Sites™ web application, and Google Video™ for business on their own domain to work together more effectively. Because it is all hosted by Google, there's no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.
Aviary, Inc. is a pioneer of a creative application suite in the cloud. With a suite of digital creation and editing software available as a service, Aviary offers a simple and cost-effective solution for anyone with multimedia editing needs – from graphic design to audio editing – to create and edit work right in their browser. Based in Long Island, NY, Aviary is backed by Bezos Expeditions and Spark Capital. For more information, visit www.aviary.com.
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Google, Google Apps Marketplace, Google Apps, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Video are trademarks of Google Inc.
Aviary is a trademark of Aviary Inc.
The awesomely fun reminder to install Google Apps!
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:53:39 EST - Have you ever wondered how many designers, illustrators, art directors, photographers and other creative people come up with amazing works of art? Most of these ideas come from inspirations that can come from a variety of sources such as: Food, Fashion, Nature, Other artists, Found Objects, Photography, etc.
For this post I will answer a few questions: 1. How do I get inspired? 2. What materials/devices do I use to record them? 3. How do I organize them?
1. How do I get inspired?
I believe art comes from many sources in life. One of the areas I draw largely from is my background (I'm from an island in the Caribbean) and culture. From my culture I focus on many things from the way people dress, the foods they eat, the colors that change their moods, how they interact with each other, the music and movies they like, etc. All of these things allow me to learn what appeals to them and helps me create things that communicate to them nonverbally.
Music and Food seem to be my two favorite sources of inspiration. I like music because it appeals to people's moods. They can love, or hate it - the same with food. The challenge for me artistically is to play music that others can dance to, and when people get hungry, feed them so that they are content.
Hopefully this analogy was understood - in other words, I like to create things that make others excited and create a familiarity or happy medium. In music, the right set of beats, tones, or instruments make the listener enjoy the composition, when to others it might sound like noise. I love when songs appeal to me because it helps my thoughts flow better. With food, presentation is appealing but taste seals the deal. Nothing's more rewarding than asking for seconds because the meal was delicious.
2. What devices/materials do I use to record them.
a. Sketch/Note Books
I'm never without a sketchbook - In fact, I have many. A few on my bookshelves, one on my desk, one in my bookbag and one on my nightstand.
I doodle everyday -- during meetings, while on the phone, during commutes, and in the middle of the night if an idea wakes me.
b. Photos
Don't you love cell phone cameras? They seem to make everything really convenient these days. Especially when you find something that's inspiring.
I take at least one photo per day with my cellphone camera. These photos are then posted, emailed or digitally manipulated. I highly suggest practicing this, especially for references. Take photos of things that interest you: the majority of my photos are of food (naturally), patterns, colors that appear in repetition (I love red) and people.
I'm also armed with a digital point and shoot camera (for higher quality recordings) and a digital SLR that I take out once in awhile when I pretend to be a real photographer.
c. Video Camera
Fortunately, many point and shoot cameras and cell phone cameras are equipped with video cameras. This is the same idea as taking photos but I love footage because I can record better shadows, positions and depth. Photos can seem flat, and video helps you get around the subject.
d. Blogs
Writing also helps to develop your work. I enjoy this because I get feedback from the outside world. So feel free to let me know: What do you use to record your inspiration?
3. How do I organize them?
As a product of this technology wave, I use sites such as flickr, tumblr, picasa and facebook to organize my photos. I can create albums and organize them chronologically or prioritize them by ideas that I want to use in the near, or far, future. You may want to do so. If you already use these websites, how do you organize them?
My sketchbooks aren't as organized as my photos; I scan sketches that I expect to recreate and upload them to private albums or prioritize them within folders of my external hard drive.
Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:23:38 EST - Crazy blue faces, kitty lookin' eyes, everyone loves "Avatar"! Okay, I admit I know nothing about the movie. But I do know the characters sure do look neat! And I figured with the Oscars just around the corner, it would be a fun idea to try to take a photo and turn it into a Na'vi inspired character. In our latest tutorial, I'll be showing you how to turn a portrait of a young lady into an "Avatar" inspired character.
Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:37:03 EST - Aviary user @Avigeee proclaimed on Twitter her amazing invitations and crafty cards she created using Aviary.
Here is her incredibly cool wedding invitation:
And her one-of-a-kind procession card:
She got both the invitation and procession card printed at Publicide Website, where you can check out her work as well as some of the other letterpress and offset printing jobs they've done.
Have you used Aviary for invitations? Send us an invite to your next party!
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:34:36 EST - With all the hype surrounding Apple's latest device, I thought it would be great promotion if we held a draw for a free iPad! Did I say draw for a free iPad? I meant we should draw an iPad for free.
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:47:10 EST - We wanted to show you the amazing emails that Aviary user CureThriftShop is creating using Aviary tools.
According to Bianca Caampued, who runs PR & marketing for the Cure Thrift Shop, "Cure Thrift Shop started using Aviary because while other email templates were confusing, Aviary was easy to figure out. We are planning to do a lot of editorial type layouts and emails like this for our site CureThriftShop.com."
We are really excited to see what else they create!
This is exactly the kind of stuff we love to hear about Aviary! So what are you using Aviary for?
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:04:30 EST - Aviary member & Etsy seller Leslie Hamer created some awesome banners for her shop using Aviary's image editor. Excerpted from her blog with permission:
Customize any of these Etsy banners with your shop name and info quickly and easily using Aviary in four simple steps:
1. Click the "Customize this banner"; link under the banner you liked to launch Aviary.
2. Select the text you wanted to edit in its layer on the right, and use the text tool (the letter A icon in the left hand toolbar) to type your new text. You can also edit fonts and change the text colors if you please.
3. Select ‘File < Export Image’ and follow the steps to save the image to your desktop.
4. Then, on Etsy go to "Your Etsy" and then "Appearance." Upload your newly created banner for all the world to see!
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:05:10 EST - Our hosting company has notified us of some major outages in one of their bandwidth providers. They are working to get service restored but until that happens, Aviary might run a bit slower than what you're used to. We apologize for the inconvenience and will let you know when things are back to normal via an edit here and Twitter.
Edit: As of late last night, our bandwidth provider informed us that things should be back to normal!
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:46:05 EST - Valentine’s day is fast approaching. And what better way to say, “I’m thinking of you a little bit.” than with the gift of an e-card? But hold the phones! This isn’t just any old e-card! That’s right, you can send personalized e-cards using Aviary’s suite of image editing tools!
Here is a collection of free e-card templates for you to use and send to all your lovers this Valentine’s Day. To send one, select any of the following cards, then click the “Send to Friends” link found on the right hand side of the page to send it to your lover! (Separate email addresses with commas to send to multiple lovers.)
You can also use select the “Open in Image Editor” link to edit the card to your heart’s content. To add your own text to the card, simply disable the Text layer and type in your own custom message using the Text Tool.
Or, select the File > Import File function to import your own photographs into the templates for maximum personalizing fun!
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
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.
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.
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.
Test your viewers. If you do not have a viewer, or if it is installed incorrectly, then you need to go to the appropriate subsections. Select the text on the left to go to the appropriate subsections and download a viewer. The objects closer to the top of the list are more generic than those near the bottom. There are discussions and viewers for
UNIX systems,
MACs, and
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.
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