IBM has come out with a new interactive visualization tool aimed at peeling back the many layers of bureaucracy in congress. The new “Many Bills” systems lets you track bills as they make their way through the various committees and offices, each step along the way changing just a little bit, before becoming the bills you know.
Many Bills does a solid job of cataloging each Congressional bill (in every stage) with a color-coded format that creates an interlocking map allowing you to link themes and follow the path of different bits of legislation. It’s also a useful tool for those looking to delve into how Washington works, and see how the issues that matter to you are being drafted in our Capitol. It may even help expose politicians passing out legislative favors, and reward those staying true to the promises.
A great step forward for transparent democracy, now we just have to hope someone actually uses it.
Jon Peddie has a new free analysis available of the GPU market, covering everything from old integrated units to new hybrid units. In it he covers lots of historical data and makes some predictions, but I found the image above particularly interesting.
In it he proposes that the integrated space (currently dominated by Intel) will quickly disappear in the growth of Hybrid systems like Fusion & Sandy Bridge. While this may not surprise many, combine this with the fact that so many of these systems go into servers or embedded designs, never actually using the graphics capability available. The end result is that the discrete GPU, theorized by many to be dying, will actually be around for quite a while to come.
A recent research study in the UK shows that a significant majority of 3D TV owners only own the glasses that came with their equipment, and a percentage (13%) don’t even own that.
“The glasses issue is very real,” says Jia Wu, a senior analyst at the firm. “Naturally enough, people would rather not have to wear them, but a majority of 3D TV viewers are prepared to put up with the inconvenience when the experience and entertainment value justify it.”
Of course, they claim that Price is the issue but I think a bigger issue is that people just don’t want to wear glasses. So many 3D tv producers ship crappy little glasses that, if you’re like me, won’t fit over your regular prescription glasses.
Naturally, the events occurred in 09/11/2001 gained worldwide repercussion. After yesterday’s post about some interactive resources about the 10th anniversary of the attacks, today we’ll follow-up with some of the ones made internationally. Despite the fact that they’re not in english, the story behind the illustrations is pretty well-known. So, from Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias, CNN Mexico, Brazilian O Globo and R7, and Spanish La Informacion, some international overviews about the attack that changed the world.
3D CAD Enthusiasts rejoice as IMSi has brought their impressive TurboViewer app back to the iPad in a Pro version offering newfound levels of interactivity and flexibility.
TurboViewer Pro is a professional drawing viewer with powerful capabilities. In addition to the TurboViewer product line being the first and only native DWG™ viewer that supports both 2D and 3D CAD DWG files for the iOS platform, TurboViewer Pro extends the capability by providing hidden line, x-ray, shaded, layer management and more… all while maintaining its lightning fast 2D and 3D performance.
Enjoy smooth multi-touch navigation as you pan, zoom, and 3D orbit effortlessly around your DWG and DXF™ files. To view drawing files, send an email with DWG or DXF attachment to your iPad/iPhone email client. Drawing files can also be viewed through Web downloads, FTP, Dropbox and WebDav systems.
For a limited time, it’s available for only $9.99 in the App Store, making it a great tool to wow your customers or your boss by interactively pulling up the designs on your iPad to manipulate before their eyes.
At IBC last week, NVidia announced that they expanded their impressive GPUDirect technology to include their video processing systems, possibly reducing most current multi-frame delay systems down to real-time processing.
NVIDIA and our partners are redefining what’s possible in real-time video production,” said Greg Estes, industry executive, Media & Entertainment, NVIDIA. “Enabling lower latency solutions for processing real-time video streams will benefit not just those working in broadcast and production facilities, but also applications in manufacturing, healthcare and government agencies.”
Just like the CUDA counterpart, the result is direct video-to-system memory access without lengthy multistage copies, reducing complexity and code execution times.
A promotional video from RenderStream, providers of multi-GPU systems for rendering and science, does a great job of also promoting OctaneRender on multiple GPU’s.
octanerender demonstration running on a RenderStream VDACTr8 with 8 GTX 580 GPUs. In this video we demonstrate the rapid visual feedback one can expect when using an 8 GPU system in a detailed interior scene. We also show how well octanerender perfroms when scaling from 1-8 GPUs.
We’re back with our Daily Viz from Visual Loop, after a two-week break, and there’s no way we could talk about something either than de 10th anniversary of the 09/11 attacks. For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be featuring here some of the best infographics and visualization tools made about this subject – including the Iraqi and Afghan wars, that were a consequence of the dreadful actions perpetrated by the terrorist group Al Qaeda. Today, our picks go to The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News UK, USA Today and Wired, all of them with some impressive pieces of interactive information design about this date.
Bunkspeed has just rolled out their newest product, Bunkspeed Pro Suite 2012, that merges SHOT & MOVE into a great product based on NVidia’s iray version 2. The new product offers both rendering and animation support, along with new lighting models and a new queue processing tool for multiple-job rendering.
“Our entire product line is now based on the same core technology, user interface, and the NVIDIA iray® engine, allowing the user to move seamlessly from Bunkspeed SHOT™, to Bunkspeed MOVE™ to the Bunkspeed PRO™ Suite as skills and requirements increase.” says Philip Lunn, Bunkspeed founder and CEO. “Sophisticated yet easy key-frame animation capability is now fully enabled in Bunkspeed PRO™ Suite 2012, allowing the iray® engine to really shine. When rendering animation, you don’t have to think about global illumination quality, the number of ray bounces or amount of photons, etc., you simply get consistent render quality from user to user and frame to frame, never possible before.
It’s about that time again, the annual anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers & the Pentagon. As part of their coverage, the New York Times has an interactive visualization of the many aspects of the financial impact, showing data varying from physical damage to war funding and homeland security budgets.
Al Qaeda spent roughly half a million dollars to destroy the World Trade Center and cripple the Pentagon. What has been the cost to the United States? In a survey of estimates by The New York Times, the answer is $3.3 trillion, or about $7 million for every dollar Al Qaeda spent planning and executing the attacks. While not all of the costs have been borne by the government — and some are still to come — this total equals one-fifth of the current national debt. All figures are shown in today’s dollars.
IBM has come out with a new interactive visualization tool aimed at peeling back the many layers of bureaucracy in congress. The new “Many Bills” systems lets you track bills as they make their way through the various committees and offices, each step along the way changing just a little bit, before becoming the bills you know.
Jon Peddie has a new free analysis available of the GPU market, covering everything from old integrated units to new hybrid units. In it he covers lots of historical data and makes some predictions, but I found the image above particularly interesting.
A recent research study in the UK shows that a significant majority of 3D TV owners only own the glasses that came with their equipment, and a percentage (13%) don’t even own that.
Naturally, the events occurred in 09/11/2001 gained worldwide repercussion. After yesterday’s post about some interactive resources about the 10th anniversary of the attacks, today we’ll follow-up with some of the ones made internationally. Despite the fact that they’re not in english, the story behind the illustrations is pretty well-known. So, from Portuguese newspaper 
3D CAD Enthusiasts rejoice as IMSi has brought their impressive TurboViewer app back to the iPad in a Pro version offering newfound levels of interactivity and flexibility.
At IBC last week, NVidia announced that they expanded their impressive GPUDirect technology to include their video processing systems, possibly reducing most current multi-frame delay systems down to real-time processing.
We’re back with our Daily Viz from Visual Loop, after a two-week break, and there’s no way we could talk about something either than de 10th anniversary of the 09/11 attacks. For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be featuring here some of the best infographics and visualization tools made about this subject – including the Iraqi and Afghan wars, that were a consequence of the dreadful actions perpetrated by the terrorist group Al Qaeda. Today, our picks go to 
Bunkspeed has just rolled out their newest product, Bunkspeed Pro Suite 2012, that merges SHOT & MOVE into a great product based on NVidia’s iray version 2. The new product offers both rendering and animation support, along with new lighting models and a new queue processing tool for multiple-job rendering.
It’s about that time again, the annual anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers & the Pentagon. As part of their coverage, the New York Times has an interactive visualization of the many aspects of the financial impact, showing data varying from physical damage to war funding and homeland security budgets.
VizWorld.com 
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