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AMD taps Optis for open ray-tracing

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Jon Peddie

The importance of highly realistic rendering drives both companies to work for a common goal of an open technology visualization ...

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Autodesk lands exclusive deal to distribute Disney “Tangled” technology

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Randall Newton

XGen combines power with ease of use for generating not only “fur, feathers, and foliage” but a wide variety of ...

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Autodesk releases 123D Sculpt for iPad

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Randall Newton

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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Khronos updates OpenGL cross-platform 3D graphips API

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Randall Newton

Wasting no time on the opening day of Siggraph, the industry consortium is also opening up two working groups to ...

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Adobe introduces Photoshop Elements 9 for the Mac App Store

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Kathleen Maher

Several high-end features from Photoshop’s professional version find their way to a consumer product for Mac users. Adobe cleverly takes ...

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Stereoscopic 3D in your pocket, in your life

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Jon Peddie

The next revolution on mobile phones has already begun. By Jon Peddie Seeing double will be the next big thing ...

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Modding the Xbox Kinect to gather 3D streaming data

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Randall Newton

In less than a year after its release, a flood of researchers and tinkerers are finding ways to re-purpose the ...

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PTC releases free Creo Sketch

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Randall Newton

Designed for rapid capture of design alternatives, Creo Sketch’s defining characteristics are its compatibility with the Creo line and its ...

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Actify set to release SpinFire CAD viewer update

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Randall Newton

More than 50 updates or features including new measure and calculate tools. Actify has announced the next release of SpinFire, ...

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Autodesk acquires social image service Pixlr

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Randall Newton

Autodesk will use the technology to strengthen existing consumer products like SketchBook, and it also gains an existing platform on ...