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Modo for industrial design; Luxology tools used for innovative Trike

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Kathleen Maher

The Trike from Australia’s Strike Motors will turn heads when it comes to market next year. Design+Industry made visualization a ...

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Why are there so few stock image collections for Photoshop 3D?

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Randall Newton

Tutorials on how to create Adobe Photoshop 3D imagery abound, but professional stock markets specializing in Photoshop 3D are still ...

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RevUp Render introduces RevUpVCS

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Kathleen Maher

RevUp Render, based in Alexandria, VA is offering cloud-based rendering services using Nvidia’s RealityServer and Mental Images iRay GPU-based rendering ...

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COMSOL introduces microfluidics simulation module

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Randall Newton

The new module provides an integrated environment for modeling microfluidic and rarefied flows, including many effects in passive electronic display ...

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Technical trivia from Kung Fu Panda 2

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Randall Newton

DreamWorks Animation SKG uses HP Z800 workstations and physics simulation tools for maximum impact. One scene took more than 7 ...

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Qube update speeds render farm management

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Randall Newton

The popular tool for managing large rendering projects offers increased control, more detailed performance metrics, and better integration with several ...

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Six 3D scanner makers adopt Geomagic Wrap

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Randall Newton

The six manufacturers sell at various price points to various applications within the larger 3D scanning market. Six manufacturers of ...

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Luxology and Softimage add Bullet to their arsenal

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Kathleen Maher

The Bullet open source physics engine and library is becoming a leading element in the emerging middleware stack for realistic ...

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Bringing robots to their senses

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Randall Newton

With the release this week of a new robotics operating system, Microsoft and Google have yet one more free-vs-free field ...

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Autodesk updates TinkerBox App, extend it to iPhone and iPod touch

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Randall Newton

More than 800,000 downloads for the free app so far. The hypnotically fun Autodesk TinkerBox for iPad is now available ...