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Autodesk lands exclusive deal to distribute Disney “Tangled” technology
XGen combines power with ease of use for generating not only “fur, feathers, and foliage” but a wide variety of ...
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Film industry partners tackle data exchange; introduce Alembic 1.0
Film industry partners Lucasfilm and Sony Imageworks have teamed up to create a compact exchange format called Alembic. The effort ...
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Autodesk releases 123D Sculpt for iPad
The child of Inventor Fusion and Sketchbook Pro technologies, we speculate the ability to 3D print iPad digital sculptures can’t ...
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Disney and CMU build 3D face models giving animators intuitive control of expressions
The data-driven approach subdivides the model into independently trained regions. Computer animators struggle to make faces do the simplest natural ...
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Notebook PC categories continue to proliferate
Disruption rules the marketplace as diverse form factors come and go. By Jon Peddie For over a decade now we ...
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Autodesk to make “major announcement” next week
Autodesk has informed selected journalists that it will make a “major announcement” next week regarding “the expansion of its AutoCAD ...
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Organic Motion shows off new technology at Siggraph 2011
Computer vision technology enables markerless motion capture for more spontaneous performances. The technology has promise for new interfaces in the ...
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UltraViolet delivers movies from the cloud
A film industry consortium introduces a way to buy movies and watch them from multiple devices. UltraViolet (UV) is a ...
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Will Fusion propel AMD back into the workstation processor market?
It has been a rough few years for AMD as a player in workstations. But JPR senior analyst Alex Herrera ...
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Khronos updates OpenGL cross-platform 3D graphips API
Wasting no time on the opening day of Siggraph, the industry consortium is also opening up two working groups to ...
