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Today I ran across Flare, which is a data visualization tool for the web that utilizes Adobe Flash. Flare can do animations, tree graphs, bubble maps, stacked time series, scatter plots, bar graphs, and more. For example, the image to the right visualizes the changing labor force in the United States over the past 150 years by using a stacked time series. Of particular interest is Flare’s demo page, where you can see all the different features in action. From their web site:

Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel.

via Flare | Data Visualization for the Web.

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Autodesk is presenting a pair of session in Sydney on June 11th talking about their new 2010 releases of Flame, Inferno, Smoke and Flare, and a meet-and-greet from Olivier Fontenay and Sebastian Gohs, colorists.

Session 1: Presentation of 2010 releases of Autodesk Flame, Inferno, Smoke and Flare, the new Flame and Inferno creative companion, all of which were launched at the NAB Show in Las Vegas last month!

Session 2: Meet Olivier Fontenay, Senior Colorist from EFILM Australia, and Sebastian Göhs, Lustre Colorist from CinePostproduction for the Lustre Super User Tour. Olivier is the man behind the awe-inspiring beauty of blockbuster Oscar-nominated Australia. He is also one of the earliest users of Lustre. Sebastian is the colorist behind Waltz with Bashir, the first animated film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Sessions start at 2pm, and run through 7 (break from 4-5).  Registration required.

Autodesk Experience the Power.

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The Indigo Renderer, long since free “unbiased” raytracing renderer, has just announced that with the upcoming 2.0 release it’s going commercial.  To quote Nicholas Chapman:

“The first experiments with what came to be called Indigo started back in 2004. The name Indigo was given to the raytracer in 2006.
And now, in 2009, Indigo is all grown up, and is going commercial as version 2.0.

To reward early commercial adopters, we are offering half price licences for a limited time. Also, the first one hundred licences sold will not only be half price, but come with free lifetime upgrades to Indigo 3, 4, and beyond.

Right now they’re selling the “lifetime licenses” for €295.00 (approx $391), and claim the price will double once they run out.

Indigo is a free, unbiased renderer. | Indigo Renderer.

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Todat at a Press Conference at NAB, Autodesk announced “Flare”.  Flare is a companion product to Flame and Inferno that allows you to swap assets and iterations back and forth between the products.  It is a software-only product that provides an extra seat to Flame or Inferno suites, at 1/5 the cost.

Studio Daily Blog » Autodesk Adds Flare to Flame and Inferno.

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