The Evolution of the Coupon
9:12 am
Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 08/07/2011
7:00 am
We finish this week dedicated to Social Media with a look at how different age groups interact online, provided by Community 102, followed by some other infographics about the use for business purposes: Social Media for SEO, created by Design by Soap, the Real Cost of Social Media, from the folks at Focus, and a humorous take at the Social Media Man, made by One Social Media. To close, Geary Interactive‘s overview of the use of Social Media during some recent natural disasters.
Intel’s Embree – Photo-Realistic Ray Tracing Kernels
11:28 am
Intel has just released a collection of Code Kernels to do photo-realistic ray-tracing entirely using instruction accelerators (SSE and AVX) on the CPU.
Embree is a collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels, developed at Intel Labs. The kernels are optimized for photo-realistic rendering on the latest Intel® processors with support for the SSE and AVX instruction sets. In addition to the ray tracing kernels, Embree provides an example photo-realistic rendering engine. Embree is designed for Monte Carlo ray tracing algorithms, where the vast majority of rays are incoherent. The specific single-ray traversal kernels in Embree provide the best performance in this scenario and they are very easy to integrate into existing applications.
The results are beautiful I must admit, and a stab against GPU-accelerated raytracers like iRay. However, they haven’t published any details on the time required for rendering other than to say “a perfect result in about a minute” on one particular model. You can get a few more details in this short video from the creators:
via Embree – Photo-Realistic Ray Tracing Kernels – Intel® Software Network – Intel® Software Network.
Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 07/07/2011
7:00 am
Today we’re taking a look at some of the recent milestones from some Social Media related companies – except Facebook and Twitter, because, let’s face it, we’re going to need a whole week just to talk about those two! To begin, a look at Formspring, the popular Q&A service, and their 25 million users. Then, some of the higlights from Foursquare, One Lilly‘s take on the six years of YouTube, Hootsuite‘s most recent milestone visualized, and, from Name Sake, a look at Zynga’s road to IPO.
Infographics Summary for 2011-07-06
10:30 pm
How to Avoid a Telemarketing Scam
History of the Condom
Infographic: How to Prevent Cancer for FREE
Drunk Driving By the Numbers
The New Workstyle: Leaving the Old Behind
Infographic: How to Get Better Grades Using Social Media
Hack Attack Infographic: Lulzsec’s Hacks and Security Stats
Growing Up Weiner
The state of money in the UK
Support US House Bill HR 2306 – Legalize Marijuana InfoGraphic
Everything you need to know about Boobs
Drunk Driving By the Numbers
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