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New book explores history of visual magic in computers

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GfxS staff

Jon Peddie connects the 3D geometry of ancient Egypt to today’s special effects in movies and games. If you have ...

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New graphene light sensor could change the imaging business

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Jon Peddie

The new device is 1,000x more sensitive to light than the sensors found in today’s smartphones and digital cameras and ...

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IMSI/Design to port TurboSite to Google Glass

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Randall Newton

Development plan announced at AIA Conference.  Retail CAD vendor IMSI/Design, which lately has been leading the move to mobile devices ...

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Nvidia drops price on upcoming Shield mobile game device to $299

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Randall Newton

The Android device doesn’t ship until June 27 but Nvidia is already responding to customer pressure. Nvidia today announced its ...

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GrabCAD launches Android app for CAD collaboration

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Randall Newton

Both the GrabCAD public library and a user’s private workbench projects are accessible.  GrabCAD today announced the release of the ...

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Nvidia gives some love to the PC at E3

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GfxS staff

Filling the vacuum left by so few details being released about new consoles. By Robert Dow In the absence of ...

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Stratasys to acquire MakerBot for $403 million

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Randall Newton

Stratasys needed a better retail product line; MakerBot needed to grow. Industrial 3D printing manufacturer Stratasys will acquire desktop 3D ...

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Latest Dassault Systèmes dashboard targets aerospace and defense

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Randall Newton

“Co-Design to Target” tracks a variety of criteria and provides functional mock-up visualization. Eliminating “point solutions” is part of the ...

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Nvidia adds ARM platform support to CUDA GPU programming

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Randall Newton

ARM-based devices are growing at a 10x rate compared to x86 devices. Nvidia continues its expansion of the CUDA parallel ...

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Aras brings first 3D PDF conversion to PLM platforms

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Randall Newton

By using 3D PDF Aras avoids the need to work with competing proprietary 3D data formats, making an open visualization ...