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Mashup 2.0: A new paradigm for professional graphics in 2012

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Randall Newton

It is time to rethink how we think about the future of graphics-based technologies. We are in transition from the ...

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Adobe posts a record year in 2011

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Kathleen Maher

Subscription plans are in place, the cloud is growing, and new software is in the pipeline. Adobe is set to ...

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The Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang roadshow visits China

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Kathleen Maher

Nvidia takes the message of supercomputing on the desktop to the world’s hungriest market for advanced technology. Kathleen Maher reports ...

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Graphics is the common language at Siggraph Asia

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Kathleen Maher

Cutting-edge research replaced movie magic as the largest draw. JPR’s Kathleen Maher reports from Hong Kong. By Kathleen Maher Attendance ...

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Zwsoft licenses Lightworks technology

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Randall Newton

The leading Chinese CAD vendor will use Lightworks Artisan to add 3D photorealistic rendering to its software in 2012. Chinese ...

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Tablet prices in freefall reacting to Kindle Fire

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Jon Peddie

Are the competitors now offering great bargains, or were the originals priced as rip offs?  According to sources talking to ...

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Autodesk acquires T-Splines modeling technology

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Randall Newton

The first major advancement in CAD geometry since NURBS has become popular in industrial, commercial, and architectural design. The fate ...

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JPR report: 80% of smartphones will have stereo 3D cameras and screens by 2015

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GfxS staff

A variety of vendors will compete for this rapidly growing space. Stereoscopic 3D in mobile devices will have many applications ...

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Luxion releases updated plug-ins for SolidWorks, Rhino, Creo, Pro/Engineer, SketchUp

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Randall Newton

The KeyShot plug-in allows CAD data to be directly transferred from a modeling session into high-resolution rendering. Luxion has updated ...

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Autodesk’s year of living acquisitively

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Kathleen Maher

All divisions—including their new consumer products group—went shopping in 2011. Here’s our list of companies and technologies now part of ...