Friday’s here, and it’s time to close another week of Daily Viz from Visual Loop. This week, we showcased some of the most interesting infographics about SOPA and online piracy, finishing today with the works from Starmedia, Charts Bin, Mozy and Credit Loan. And, despite all the recent events, I’m pretty sure we haven’t heard the last of this kind of legislation.
Most people know that Autodesk Maya will run on multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux), but most people don’t know how to get a single Backburner install rendering across multiple platforms simultaneously. In a new video over at Maya Station he covers how to get Mac & Windows going together.
In this video I explain two key components to get this up and running. The first is setting the correct path to Maya’s render command so both Windows and Mac OS can use the same command when submitting the job. The second task here is to mount a samba drive on Mac OS. In the video I show a simple method of gettng this done but you will loose the mount at reboot. To keep the mount through reboot I suggest you lookingto launchctl command and how to use it.
It’s not a perfect tutorial, a bit fast in places and he trips over a few typos here and there. The steps he takes tho could probably work for getting a Linux machine in the loop as well.
via Maya Station: Getting BackBurner rendering on Windows and Mac OS X simultaneously.
Adobe has posted a great new sneak-peek video of what you’ll be able to do with the new Photoshop CS6 and Camera Raw. Showing off some amazing processing capable on crappy cell-phone photos along with some new UI features like interface color changes.
In this video taken straight from the laptop of our Senior Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, get an early look at some of the things the Photoshop team is working on for Camera Raw.
Most of the opposition against SOPA and PIPA is, in fact, anti-online piracy. Sure, the entertainment industry needs to reinvent its business, in particular when it comes to the content distribution model. The internet changed everything, and the industry must acknowledge this in a positive way, and not the opposite, as it’s been doing for decades. Today’s infographic compilation continues to show some of the aspects involving this complex issue, and are brought by Pajiba, Gareth Parry, Clickit Ticket, Ashley Angell and Sakari Pitkänen.
If you’ll be in the Portland, Oregon area this March, maybe you should consider stopping by the Marquam Hill Campus of the Oregon Health & Science Universith for the IEEE Virtual World Symposium where they’ll be demonstrating the use of 3D virtual environments in a variety of areas.
The purpose of this symposium is introduce 1) present tutorials and examples of usage of a selected virtual social environment, Second Life®, which is being used by the IEEE® professional organization to educate, communicate, and promote membership collaboration, present examples of Second Life and other virtual worlds being used in a wider range of engineering fields such as architecture, mechanical design, corporate group meetings, 2) present a keynote address by an IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society Distinguished Lecturer on research topics in the area of virtual social environments and multi-player gaming, and, 3) host a “geekfest” event with presentations demonstrating wide-ranging universe of virtual worlds, applications, tools, and situations.
Update 1/26 10am: An eagle-eyed commenter pointed out my inability to parse dates, this is actually last year’s Virtual World Symposium. This year’s symposium is in Southern California, details here.
InformationAesthetics brings us a great talk from TEDx on Molecular Animation. Chemistry was one of the earliest forms of visualization, classic ball and stick visualizations that brought particles tinier than the eye can see to life. Today, many molecular visualizations are the same but new technologies are coming along to show new effects in bonds and structures with amazing detail and opening the world to whole new types of computational chemistry.
Next to a movie that originates back from around 2003 that focuses on the replication of DNA, he also shows a newer version that has been accomplished through “updated science, updated technology”, revealing how DNA mitosis through a nifty process of some quite ‘mechanical’ signal broadcasting system. At the end, he highlights the processes behind a malaria infection of a human child via a mosquito bite, through invasion of cellular tissues including the liver and blood. malaria spreads in your blood.
via TEDx Talk on Molecular Animation: Combining Cinema and Biology – information aesthetics.
VFX Soldier has a great piece on some of the recent discoveries in the ongoing Apple/Pixar/Lucasfilm investigation from the Justice Department. The allegation is that these three studios (and maybe more) had an illegal agreement to not poach each other’s employees in an attempt to drive wages down. Not only is this illegal, but it’s been a shock to many in the VFX Industry that saw Pixar and Lucasfilm as the ultimate employer in VFX.
Furthermore, consider how remarkable this case has become. Steve Jobs, Pixar, and Lucasfilm. For VFX artists these names are nothing but legends to us and could do no harm. Look at what the Justice Department’s investigation revealed. Behind our backs they colluded to drive wages down.
via Poach-gate Scandal: VFX Idol Steve Jobs Involved « VFX Soldier.
Today’s selection starts with a couple of infographics from Loudpixel and Online University about SOPA – yes, still SOPA, but these are the last ones, really! After that, we start taking a look at online piracy, the real issue that led to this controversial legislation. Meobleshows us the top 10 most pirated movies of all time, Go-Gulf provides some interesting facts and stats about online piracy, and finally, MPAA‘s pyramid of Internet Piracy.
Great news from CEI today, they’ve just annouced that the new Flow-3D CFD system will support advanced post-processing and volume rendering animation right in the GUI, thanks to EnSight 10.
“The integration of EnSight 10 will offer our users unprecedented capability to easily develop the compelling, dynamic images they need to conduct more thorough analysis, validate findings and communicate their results to their customers, both internal and external,” said Flow Science President Tom Jensen. “We spent a lot of time and effort looking for a solution that would give us the state-of-the-art post-processing and visualization our customers had been asking for. CEI and EnSight were a natural fit for us, offering both well-developed technology that could quickly plug in to FLOW-3D, as well as a similar open and collaborative corporate culture that will continue to benefit our customers down the road.”
FLOW-3D Users will be able to take a little sneak-peek of the new software at this summer’s European Users Conference.
via Flow-3D Software to Feature Built-In EnSight 10 | CEI SOFTWARE.
When we said yesterday that a bit of internet history was made last week, with the online blackout and the all the protests against SOPA and PIPA, we really meant it. After all, it was the first time social media and the “Internet People” changed the U.S Congress’ mind, showing that, despite the entertainment industry’s reasons, this specific piece of legislation simply wasn’t good enough. Today’s infographics brought by Geek Tyrant, Pro Publica, Visual.ly, Luming Consulting and American Censorship.
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