Nokia has partnered with Paramount to create another Star Trek Augmented Reality website called “Join Starfleet Academy”. Similar to the “Experience” AR website, you print out a marker and hold it in front of your webcam to see scenes from the Movie.
Works on Windows & Mac, but requires download and installationof the D-Fusion plugin. See a video after the break.
We’ve discussed the Sapphire Atomic HD 4890 before, but a little bit of new information has come to light:
Packed in an exclusive Atomic aluminum case, the card features 1GB GDDR5 and core/memory clock of 1000/1050MHz (effective 4200MHz). The other features keep unchanged: 800 stream processors, 256-bit memory interface and support for ATI CrossFireX.
Sapphire is expected to officially announce the card tomorrow.
A press release from Cinesite talks about the VFX they created for the new Wolverine film, mostly centered around a single scene of Wolverine and his crew flying to Lagos.
The plane, a military version of an American Gulfstream business jet, was modeled from scratch. Detail right down to the interior of the cockpit were created to ensure absolute accuracy, as well as strobing navigation lights, landing lights (with interactive glow added to the surrounding clouds), engine glow, heat haze and vapor trails emanating from the wings.
The press release goes on to talk about using Houdini for the clouds, Nuke to export the camera data form Maya, and digital matte paintings for the ground and sky.
Full press release after the break.
Frameboxx has announced a partnership with India’s biggest animation finishing school “BIG”, which will allow Frameboxx students to continue their education at BIG studios and specialize.
Students who are studying at Frameboxx centers across India would be able to opt to pursue their specialization at BIG Animation’s finishing school-BIG AIMS. Besides, the existing students of Frameboxx from all over the country would be able to do a specialization in the perfect studio environment. The initiative is unique and first of its’ kind as it provides case study based specialization programme along with an internship to the students at the same time.
The first set of classes at BIG are scheduled to begin shortly.
via Frameboxx announces an industry-academia tie-up with BIG Animation Studio.
Almost 6 weeks ago NVidia showed off their scheme for a single-PCB GTX295, and now Inno3D is coming to market with product.
Having the honor of being the strongest 3D gaming graphics card, GeForce GTX295 features two 55nm GT200 chips, 1792MB (896*2) GDDR3 memory, 896-bit (448*2) memory interface, 289W TDP, 1.4 billion*2 transistors, 240*2 stream processors, 80*2 Texture Map Units, 28*2 ROPs, and core/shader/memory clock of 576/1242/1998MHz. The single-PCB GTX295 keeps the same specs as before.
ExPreview has all the gory details, but the card is out immediately with no word on pricing.
via The First Single-PCB GTX295 From Inno3D Unearthed – Expreview.com.
Intel is investing $12 million to create a new research center in europe aimed at exploring advanced graphics and visual computing technologies. Opening today, the Intel Visual Computing Institute is located at Saarland University in Saarbruken, Germany.
Visual computing, by Intel’s definition, is the analysis, enhancement and display of visual information to create life-like, real-time experiences and more natural ways for people to interact with computers and other devices. Applications include games, medical imaging and interactive 3D data models used in areas such as scientific research and financial services.
Specifically, the lab will be focusing on tera-scale computing and now multiple graphics cores can produce higher performance computing and more life-like graphics.
via Intel Forms Visual Computing Research Center in Europe – X-bit labs.
Galaxy has just released a new GTX250 non-reference board with some interesting features.
The self-designed GTS 250 comes with core/shader/memory clock of 738/1836/2200MHz, adopts 5 phase power supply with its special 3D style cooler, and sports dual VIOS, PWM fan and native HDMI output. Owe to the usage of high-speed 0.8ns GDDR3 memory, it can be effortlessly overclocked to 738/1836/2600MHz, which brings up to 7% performance improvement.
Pricing has not been announced.
Jer Thorp stumbled upon an interesting visualization of one small portion of twitter, using user’s specified Home Locations & tweets matching “Just Landed in X”, he could plot the travels of twitter users all around the globe.
This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta’s Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.
Built with Processing.org.
MetroCAF 2009, organized by the New York City chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, is now accepting submissions for their upcoming show October 1st.
This seventh edition of the festival is open to all students who attend college in the NYC metropolitan area, and who have produced computer animation, visualization or visual effects within the course of your studies (in other words, you haven’t been paid for it). Schools are considered to be within the NYC metropolitan area if they are located within a 75-mile radius of Times Square in Manhattan.
Submissions must be received by June 1st.
via MetroCAF 2009 – Home.
Autodesk is investigating the possibility of adding support for Transparency into AutoCAD, and is asking for user input on how & if this feature should be added.
We would be interested in gathering user-specific preferences for the concept of Transparency in AutoCAD. Currently there is no support of transparency of object in AutoCAD and we are looking for your feedback for consideration in a future release.
It’s a 29 question survey from the “AutoCAD Product Design & Usability Team”.
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