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The workstation market finds its groove in the third quarter

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GfxS staff

Unlike the broader PC market, workstations are not nearly as threatened by tablets and smartphones as general-purpose desktop and notebook ...

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Paul Hellard’s Siggraph Asia diary

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Randall Newton

“Fresh, social, mobile, and reactive” were the reoccurring themes discovered by CGSociety’s veteran Australian reporter. No Stinky Tofu on this ...

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Dassault Systèmes woos designers to the 3DExperience vision

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GfxS staff

Catia division CEO Philippe Laufer went to Stuttgart to convince designers his company knows the way forward. By Tom Lansford ...

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Delcam launches integrated electrode solution

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GfxS staff

Elements of Delcam’s PowerShape, PowerMill, and PowerInspect are brought together with a new file format designed for electrode design. Delcam ...

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Caustic introduces ray-tracing accelerator boards

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Jon Peddie

Imagination Technologies acquired Caustic in 2010 for its graphics prowess. These two new add-in boards address a small but fanatic ...

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Building a clock to run for 10,000 years

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GfxS staff

Engineers at The Long Now Foundation are using PTC’s Mathcad and Creo to design the first of several 300-foot clocks ...

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Khronos updates OpenCL specification

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Randall Newton

New extensions include support for heterogeneous parallel computation in a web browser. The Khronos Group has released an update to the ...

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Big and bigger 3D printers at Euromold

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Randall Newton

Printing a bicycle frame at full scale is now possible. The Mcor Iris attracted considerable interest with photorealistic 3D printing ...

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Tracking the untrackable 007 in Skyfall-themed commercial

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GfxS staff

Bradley Munkowitz and Navarro Parker talk about the digital effects they created for a Sony ad campaign. By Meleah Maynard ...

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Ares Commander update causes ripple effect

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Randall Newton

CorelCAD is also updated today and DraftSight will be shortly; both use Graebert’s Ares technology. A consistent market remains for ...