With a focus on new capabilities and ease-of-use, version 2.1 of Bifrost for Maya makes it possible to build compounds using rapid point-cloud lookups, nearest-neighbor searches, and raycasting. Other highlights include an improved interface for setting datatypes on nodes, making graphs more readable, and significant improvement in file IO. Here’s a quick summary of some[…..] […]
the coronavirus pandemic, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in California offers a sobering statistic. Roughly 30% of LAUSD students are not regularly attending their virtual classes. Some 15% of the district’s students have not attended a single class. For Los Angeles’ sprawling system of more than 600,000 students and 24,000 teachers, remote learning[…..] […]
Adobe has released Substance Painter 2020.2. the latest version of its 3D texture painting software, adding a long-awaited feature: the ability to paint across UDIM tiles. The update also adds the option to pause the Substance Painter engine while working, makes a number of improvements to overall performance, and reduces the size of project files[…..] […]
Foundry has released Mari 4.6v4, the latest update to its 3D texture painting software. Although it’s officially described as a maintenance release, it actually adds quite a number of new features, including a new local space mode for the transform tool and improvements to baking workflow. Since the orignal release of Mari 4.6, Foundry has[…..] […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised many questions among our customers on how to ensure safety and hygiene when using VR/XR headsets. Taking good care of your headset by cleaning it regularly is a practice we highly recommend for all our customers. A clean headset means safe usage, which is now more important than ever. See[…..] […]
What’s New: Today, Intel revealed new details about Thunderbolt™ 4, the next generation of its universal cable connectivity solution, delivering increased minimum performance requirements, expanded capabilities and USB4 specification compliance. For the first time, Thunderbolt 4 will offer docks with up to four Thunderbolt ports and universal cables up to 2 meters in length. Intel’s[…..] […]
It’s doubtful we could have forecast 20 years ago the performance and sophistication we have today. You’ve heard the old joke about how to boil a frog — slowly raise the temperature of the water. In a way, we’ve been the frogs, and the water temperature was being raised by Moore’s Law. The improvements in[…..] […]
Fugaku—More FLOPS per Arm than any other ever. What do Apple and Fujitsu have in common? They’re both building expensive computers using Arm processors. Fujitsu has been working with Riken, Japan’s largest and oldest private research institution (established in 1917). This week, Riken and Fujitsu announced the supercomputer Fugaku, a supercomputer using Arm. A supercomputer[…..] […]
Ere Santos remembers that he once had to animate a fight between his character, the sidekick, and the hero of the film. The sidekick lands on the hero’s head, and the scene cuts. Luckily, the hero’s animator sat next to Mr Santos. Much like their creations, the two colleagues went to battle on how the[…..] […]
Full sized version of the 1980’s home computer THEVIC20 available October 2020 30 June 2020, Theale, UK – Another timeless classic is being given a new lease of life with the launch of a full-sized version of the VIC-20. Developed by Retro Games Ltd. and distributed by Koch Media, THEVIC20 is a fully licensed reimagining[…..] […]
