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A nice win for Lightworks today comes from the announcement that new versions of Graebert’s ARES CAD software will be integrated with the Lightworks Artisan SnapShot Studio, a product similar to Keyshot in that is allows quick and easy generation of photorealistic images from models, 3D CAD data in this case. The integration works throughout the entire design process, enabling rapid generation of photorealistic images to test materials and design quickly.

Commenting on the partnership, Wilfied Graebert, CEO and founder of Graebert GmbH said, “Integrating the photorealistic technology offered by Lightworks brings a whole new level of 3D excellence to ARES and we are particularly excited to be amongst the first to integrate with Artisan software.”

ARES supports DWG2010 and DXF support already, making it a nice “polish” tool if you use AutoCAD or Solidworks instead, but is a completely standalong CAD package as well.

Full announcement after the break.

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20 Interesting Facts About Youtube [Infograph].

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Some major news on the Linux Graphics front this weekend coming from some developers on the Gallium3D project.  Over the weekend, Luca Barbieri committed code adding a DirectX 10 and 11 “state tracker” to the project, offering some basic DX10 and DX11 support.  It’s far from feature-complete, but its’ the first steps toward bring the popular Windows-based gaming API to Linux.

Unlike other options integrated into tools like Wine, this new code does not merely translate between DirectX and OpenGL, but rather goes from DirectX direct to the hardware, making it much faster than the alternatives.  I would think such a solution would be less portable, but they claim it makes it ‘essentially free to All Linux Drivers’.

For those thinking that Direct3D 10/11 on Linux will be sub-par, “Finally, a mature Direct3D 10/11 implementation is intrinsically going to be faster and more reliable than an OpenGL implementation, thanks to the dramatically smaller API and the segregation of all nontrivial work to object creation that the application must perform ahead of time.”

via [Phoronix] Direct3D 10/11 Is Now Natively Implemented On Linux!.

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Do you have a 3D HDTV and are looking for stereoscopic 3D gaming content? Andrew Fear, Product Manager for Nvidia’s GeForce 3D Vision talks about their latest offering that gives software support to alternate 3D display solutions.

via : Nvidia Talks 3DTV Play at 3D Entertainment Summit

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PCInLife has some leaked specifications of AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 6770 and 6750. We have no idea if these are accurate or not, so treat them as a rumor.

via : PCInLife

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Dell’s cloud evangelist Barton George interviews Geoff Ballew of NVIDIA during his recent visit to Dell. Geoff talks about how NVIDIA has gotten into the world of general purpose HPC computing.

via : InsideHPC

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We start this week with a worldwide overview on the State of The Blogosphere, provided by The Blog Herald, followed by some interesting stats on cell phones, from Cellphones.org, and a look at the European Smartphone Market, made by Metagrafic. We then take a deep dive into the crime scenario in England and Wales with a help from The Telegraph, and close with ChaCha‘s explanation on how other countries pick their Leaders.

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Augmented Reality Book from marklukas on Vimeo.

Mark Lukas has an interesting idea for merging classic paper books with modern technology in Augmented Reality.

In this conceptual work, I tried to use augmented reality as a tool for an easy way to locate a 3D-Model in a book. The user can easily thumb through the book and the specific 3D-Model appears directly, when the webcam recognizes the pattern on the page.

It doesn’t seem too terribly useful in this example, but it’s definitely neat to look at.

Augmented reality atlas.

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I found this after I came back from GTC, and it’s so absurd that I feel I have to debunk it.  During Oracle’s regular shareholders meeting, Larry Ellison went on the record with this remark:

“You’re going to see us buying chip companies,” Ellison, 66, said yesterday at Oracle’s annual meeting in San Francisco. Acquiring chipmakers would extend Oracle’s push into computer hardware, initiated in January with its purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc., a server manufacturer.

Not too surprising.  As the line between Software, Hardware, and Firmware becomes smaller, it makes sense for Oracle to follow in the steps of companies like Apple and try to bring some of that expertise in-house.  In fact, Oracle began this already in their acquisition of Sun Microsystems.  However, this statement has led some analysts to believe that Oracle may acquire Intel, AMD, or NVidia.

That’s simply ridiculous.  Oracle has $23.6B in cash and short-term investments.  Intel’s just too big to be bought, having a market cap 5times that ($108B).  AMD and NVidia are at least affordable, with market caps of $4B and $7B respectively, but still big enough to be painful.  AMD and NVidia both have completely different markets from Oracle, a merger just doesn’t make sense.

The merger of Sun and Oracle made some sense, as Sun generally provided all of the server and storage systems for Oracle.  Sun owned StorageTek, and provided some pretty significant HPC and Networking assets that really fit into the Oracle “Total Solution” business.  Buying a CPU manufacturer (or a GPU manufacturer) doesn’t offer the same type of cohesion, and where Sun was going down, both AMD and Nvidia are regularly reporting record grown each quarter.

If anything, I expect we may hear about some official strategic partnerships and possibly some stock-transfer, but simply acquisitions are out of the question.

via Oracle Plans to Acquire Chipmakers, Industry-Specific Software – Bloomberg.

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The Register interviews Andy Keane, GM of the Tesla Business for Nvidia.

via : The Register

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