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.
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.
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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 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.
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:-
After capturing the page, you can edit it, add simple markup to it and save it to your desktop (or host it online with a single click). It should work on almost any public page on the Internet, with any browser. It can even capture Flash!
If you want additional options, for example to capture a page at different resolutions or to only capture a portion of the page click Screen Capture on Aviary's homepage or just visit:
* Choose different screen resolutions * Region to capture * Quality / Speed settings. * Multiple Browsers / Operating Systems (coming soon)
And of course, for even more powerful screen capture options (including capturing private pages and instant capture), please install our Firefox addon.
Screen Capture Using the latest version of Aviary's new Firefox Extension (Talon), users can quickly perform screen capture on select regions or even entire web pages (including content hidden below the fold). Users can capture data to their desktops, clipboards, or even markup and edit the content directly in Aviary's applications. Download the latest version here! It's not up on Mozilla's Addons site yet.
Blazing Fast / Instant On Falcon is under 90k in size, resulting in an instantaneous load time. Anyone that has Aviary's Firefox extension Talon installed can access and edit screen captured data without any server interaction (it all takes place right within the browser).
Easy Color Extraction Use the built-in color picker tool to extract web color values from images and screenshots. This is awesome and simple for web designers!
Simple Editable Markup Draw arrows, edit text, make shapes. Everything is selectable. Move, rotate and resize anything added to the screen. You can even recolor, add outlines and shadows.
Built-in Sharing Host your file online for easy sharing or download it right to your desktop. You can even easily post it to Twitter and other social sharing services.
Image Preparation Features Crop, Rotate and Resize your image quickly and easily to prepare it for the web.
Aviary Application Integration Need more design power? Port your image into 4 different Aviary tools (color editor, advanced image editor, effects editor and vector editor).
Intuitive Interface Designed for bloggers, the interface is intuitive, quick to use and responsive.
Ideal for Netbook Use The app resizes perfectly for use in netbooks with small screen resolutions.
FAQ
Q: Why did you codename it Falcon? A: Peregrine Falcons are recorded as the world's fastest birds. We thought that was an apt code name for our fastest app.
Q: What requirements do I need to run Falcon? A: Any browser with Adobe Flash 9+ installed. Flash 10 is strongly recommended. Future versions of Falcon will be developed specifically for Flash 10.
Q: Can the Firefox extension capture Flash data as well? A: Yes, in Firefox 3.5 it can. We highly recommend you upgrade.
Q: How much does Falcon cost to use? A: Totally free to use. Aviary Pro members also gain additional storage options like privacy and watermark control for only $24.99 yearly.
Q: Is Falcon available to access through Aviary's API? A: Yes. Any website can integrate with it directly. More information at http://aviary.com/apidocs or email us at support@aviary.com to access it.
If you don't want the entire API, but just want a simple way to launch Falcon with an image preloaded inside of it, just append the URL of the image you want to launch to the end of the querystring using the url= parameter. It will look like this: http://aviary.com/launch/falcon?url=http://www.google.com/logos/logo.gif
Q: Can I use a different Aviary app after performing screen capture in Talon? A: Yes, just edit the Add-on Settings to choose a different app as your default choice instead of Falcon.
Thanks for all the volunteers who offered to translate Aviary into different languages! Translating languages for different Aviary tools is easy. Just follow these steps:
DIRECTIONS
Step 1. Download a free application called Poedit and install it.
Step 3. Just unzip and open any .po file in Poedit, click on a row to translate the English terms and enter your translation at the bottom. You can translate as many rows as you like.
Step 4. When you are done, Save the .po file and simply email it back to support@aviary.com and we'll approve it and add it to the Aviary tool you translated (and send you a nice thank you gift).
Please include the following in your email to support@aviary.com:
* The name of the tool you translated * The name of the language you translated * Your Aviary username * Your name and shipping address (we will not publish this anywhere). * The saved .po file. :)
Did you know you can create Twitter backgrounds in Aviary? If not, I have something to tell you. Hey guys, you can create Twitter backgrounds in Aviary! AviaryTwitter.egg by meowza on Aviary.
There are a few points to keep in mind when creating your Twitter background image.
1. Real Estate -- The center of your image will be obscured by the actual content on Twitter, so putting elements of importance in the middle will not be optimal, as it'll be partially, if not completely, covered by all the juicy, can't-miss tweets.
2. Resolution -- Monitors of different resolutions will display background Twitter images differently. Creating images too small will cause abrupt cut-offs in your design or the need to use undesired tiling of your image on monitors of higher resolution. A good practice to remedy this problem is to create your image large enough so that it'll work on monitors of large resolution and by keeping elements of importance contained approximately in the upper leftmost area of the image. Note, that background images will be nearly unidentifiable on monitors of 800x600 resolution, as the twitter content covers most of the screen. And also, if you're still using a monitor at 800x600 resolution... duuude.
3. Alignment -- It's also worth noting that your background image will be aligned to the LEFT of a viewer's screen. If you create an image suitable for large resolution monitors, remember that any excess of your image will be cut off on the right and bottom on monitors of smaller resolution. Many people choose to create background images which fade to a solid color on the right to prevent undesired cropping of background images or unwanted tiling.
As I mentioned, it's good to begin with a larger image to display on monitors of varying resolutions. I find starting with a canvas size of 1680x1200 pixels covers the majority of resolutions out there.
Remember to keep space available at the top of your design to incorporate the Twitter logo and navigation bar.
Also, a lot of people choose to include a sidebar on the left. This allows you to include additional information about yourself including links to personal sites, your email address, or pictures of your dog that nobody cares to see. Again, it's worth mentioning that you're probably going to want the sidebar to be viewable on monitors of varying resolution. A good way to ensure this is to try to keep your sidebar around 200pixels wide, so as not to be obscured by the content in the middle on smaller monitors.
Here are some examples of Twitter backgrounds that can be created in Aviary. Feel free to open up any of the creations to see how they were made.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote for us. A special thanks to Rafe and Josh and the rest of the Webware crew for bestowing this awesome honor upon us.
This is probably one of the best video reviews, if not *the* best review, for Aviary.com I've ever seen. Thanks so much to Kevin and Olivia for this awesome in-depth review and welcome to the thousands of viewers joined our community (and pushed us to the #1 spot in Google Trends last night)!
From their blog:
"A new way to edit images online and for free? Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn explore the all new Aviary Image Editing Suite with four different applications to use--all through your web browser. Whether you want to juxtapose images together, or learn how to use a color pallette, Aviary lets you do it all."
Now just choose which email contact list you want to check.
Enter your email username and password. (We will not store your login or password (or any of your friends). Any data retrieved is solely to let you find your friends and will not be stored by us.)
Then like magic we will let you know which of your friends are on Aviary. Giving you the ability to keep up to date with their latest creations.
If for some reason they don't have an Aviary account yet, you have the option to invite them to join the fun.
If you have multiple contact lists just rinse and repeat the previous steps.
* A t-shirt with your winning design. [$30 value] (includes free shipping) * A Premium Shop Membership at Spreadshirt. [$100 value] (limited to North America) * An Aviary premium account. [$99 value]
With out further adieu, the followings artists had the most votes.
Fly Solo by nnizzle
the awkward years- even sharks have them by playing4square
We recently updated Phoenix, Aviary's image editor, so anyone can use all the fonts on their computer (and open other people's files, even if they dont have the font).
This was particularly tricky because our site is collaborative and we didn't want anyone to have a bad experience when they were opening a shared file that contained a font missing on their computer.
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 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 3D Glasses on line
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.
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