exPreview has discovered that the Radeon HD 4830 supports 800 stream processors, rather than the advertised 640. This makes it similar to the HD 4850, it simply runs at a lower clock speed. However, it’s easily overclocked to run at the same speed, and retails for $89.99, rather than $114.
Exclusive: 800SP HD 4830 Sneaks up in China – Expreview.com.
JVC is jumping on the 3D Bandwagon with a new supersized 3D LCD television. The GD-463D10 is a 46-inch LCD HDTV with a native 1,920 x 1080 resolution, 2,000:1 contrast ratio, twin ten-watt speakers and support for three-dee material. The set will come bundled with a pair of polarized glasses when it ships in Japan early next month. Currently listed with a ¥700,000 ($6,978) price tag, which seems particularly painful with no real 3D programming to speak of.
Translated version of http://www.jvc-victor.co.jp/press/2009/gd-463d10.html.
fxphd has put the course list for their April09 term online, and it’s a great collection of classes. Also, they’ve teamed with the Sydney effects house FIN Design to focus many of the courses on the 3-part mini-series Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, shot entirely with the new RED ONE camera.
The term is focused heavily on the production and VFX of Red Dwarf with several new courses resulting from the effort, but there’s also two new After Effects courses, our first ever course on Scripting with Python, an all new Smoke course, and a follow up to Lucas Martell’s XSI course covering his amazing work on “Pigeon: Impossible.”
New this term, members will have access to Red Giant Trapcode Suite and Magic Bullet Looks. And, as always, we have VPN educational licenses of Cinema4D, Nuke, PFTrack, Maya, Fusion, and Massive for your use in following the courses.
NVidia is running a limited-time promotion that offers up to 50% off MSRP on up to 4 Tesla C1060′s.
With special promotional pricing from NVIDIA, you can purchase up to four Tesla C1060 Computing Processors at 50% off MSRP* from NVIDIA Tesla Preferred Providers.
Click here to find out how you can take advantage of this special offer.
Hurry! This offer ends on May 31, 2009. Don’t miss the chance to bring supercomputingpower to your development system.
The site is currently a little slow to load. Let us know if you have any luck.
Update: To get the promotional code, fill out a short survey form here for NVidia.
RealFlow has a great case study online about the “Whole” commercial we discussed earlier. They talk in great depth about the struggles of binding water to geometry with RealFlow, and how they managed to make the commercial work with a single all-encompassing RealFlow Sim.
Our early tests were quite slow with a lot of calculations involved. We had to speed up the sim considerably for “Whole”, because the main shot of the project was 650 frames of continuous water action – and it had to be a single simulation. We were fortunate that this project was mapped out far in advance by the wise folks at DMG and Sugar, so we had a good amount of time to complete the R&D and creative process.
via Case Study, Whole.
Vital Images will be having their annual meeting this Thursday, during which they will hold a presentation from Dr Vijay Maker, chairman of the Department of Surgery and executive program director at the University of Illinois Metropolitan Group Hospital Residency in General Surgery Program. he will discuss the uses and benefits of advanced visualization in major surgery and followup.
“Modern surgery can benefit deeply from advanced visualization technology ” said Dr. Maker. “The team at Vital Images helped make surgical simulation become a reality which has ultimately led to improved patient care. I look forward to sharing my advanced visualization experiences with the broader Vital community.”
Great to see a surgeon that understands the benefits of visualization.
via Vital Images, Inc. to Webcast Annual Meeting Thursday, May 14 – MarketWatch.
Ian Li just won the Carnegie Mellon Smiley Award for Grafitter
, a web-based twitter visualization tool. By using his special hashtag syntax, you can use twitter to record several variables about yourself, such as weight, mood, motivation, and foods eaten. Then Grafitter offers an easy way to analyze and graph the data, turning Twitter into a powerful data acquisition system for information visualization and datamining.
“Grafitter would allow individuals to better understand the kind of content they have been producing and understand the patterns in their lives for any behavior they use Twitter to report on. It also allows this easy sharing of information (the main benefit of Twitter) with others to be made that much more valuable, as they can also see and identify patterns and comment back,” Dey said.
John West at InsideHPC.com (you might remember we interviewed him for the Special Edition Podcast on SGI), has build a graphical timeline of SGI.
One thing that’s interesting to me seeing all this laid out visually is the paired events: CEOs hired/fired, companies bought and then sold for pennies on the original dollar.
Hit his site for the full-resolution image.
via A visual timeline of the rise and sale of SGI | insideHPC.com.
At the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, they’ve setup a simple “Augmented Reality” setup to allow visitors to view paintings and photographs, and see overlays of specific data appear in the augmented display.
There are two types of hardware on hand — both the MovableScreen-packin’ iMac stationary display and the UMPC devices allow the user to seemingly view through the photos, exploring specific points of interest
I’m not seeing any particularly fascinating technology. From the supplied video, it looks almost like it’s simply a stepper motor controlling what’s displayed to the user, so no image recognition and processing work. An astute site-visitor pointed out that they have a decent Writeup of the project that claims they are using video overlays, with a camera mounted on the back of the displays. Orientation within the poster is done with technology from a product called iTACITUS, which can perform image matching to find the camera picture within the poster.
If anyone’s in the area, I’ld love to hear more about it. Video after the break.
A new company in Boston named Visible Certainty is offering a web-based data visualization platform. The company was founded by Stuart Roseman, founder of Gamesville.com (sold to Lycos in 1999 for $232 Million), and GameLogic (currently a privately owned casino software supplier).
My impetus was to democratize data, Roseman said. My aspiration is to get people to think more deeply about data to visualize it interact with it, and share it.
Their first product is available online for free at verifiable.com.
via New Boston company offers to visualize your data – Daily Business Update – The Boston Globe.
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