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The Unity Blog has been updated with example of some of the new Image Effects you’ll be able to use in the upcoming Unity3.  They have examples of lens flares, depth of field, outline shaders, bloom, sun shafts, lens effects, and many more.

Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing some of the new Image Effects.

Science imageprocessing, unity, unity3d

I was checking the weather today, a decided rainy day, and saw that Weather Underground now has a “3d Weather Radar” Feature.  The overlay the existing 2D terrain & radar map with a 3d isosurface extracted from the data.

• The 3D interface shows 3 iso-surfaces of radar dBZ (3D surfaces of equal radar echo/precipitation strength). These surfaces are 20 (green), 30 (yellow), and 50 (red) dBZ.
• A standard 2D radar image covers the ground.
• USGS terrain is drawn at 30 arc-second resolution to show topography
• Place names are drawn in white text
• Counties are drawn as black lines

It’s powered by the Unity player. It’s still very basic, and not worth much more than fun factor at the moment.  What else could they add that would make it more valuable?

via 3D Radar : Weather Underground.

Science 3d, interactive, unity, unity3d, weather, web

A pair of big announcements from Unity3D.  First off is the release of the new version 2.6 with new features like streaming, an animation editor, and better support for typical development tools like Subversion and Perforce.  Also, the new 2.6 is now free to all to try out.

Unity is the foundation of several major games like Cartoon Network’s “FusionFall” MMO, and is a great way to get into cross-platform game development.

UNITY: What’s New in Unity 2.6.

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