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sâmbătă, 31 iulie 2021

News : Poly was shut down ...

Poly was shut down on June 30, 2021. What does this mean for you? The ability to download assets was disabled on June 30, 2021. The ability to upload new 3D models on poly.google.com was disabled on April 30, 2021.
See the official website from Google.

marți, 27 iulie 2021

Slices of Mars in full 3D.

Graphics contain elements with complex informational content and require human and technical processing resources.
The complexity of the informational content is the result of the processing and assimilation process.
I could continue on this topic but it would not be fair for readers to give courses on this topic.
However, we can see multiple examples on the web that highlight these arguments.
Here is a pretty interesting example for both developers and scientists.

luni, 26 iulie 2021

Online penzil for sketches application.

Jacopo Colò has released Penzil, a neat little online app that lets you sketch in 3D, then export the sketches to Blender.
This application is build by JavaScript 3D library Three.js and is browser-based.
You can use this application online on this website.

duminică, 25 iulie 2021

News : Three.js comes with new features.

I did not follow Three.js closely so this news is older.
Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL. The source code is hosted in a repository on GitHub..., see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three.js
The last relese was 20 days agom see the GitHub webpage.
You can see a FBX model with animations on this online demo.

sâmbătă, 24 iulie 2021

Huion contest : Your ideal world.

Theme of this conquest is: Your ideal world.
There are always some sparking moments around us, which form our daily life and thus shape our world. What is your ideal moment? It can be a moment when you glimpse the sunset while driving or your cat is napping and waiting at the doorway. What is your ideal life? Life that strives for excellence, or you prefer to spend the whole weekend in your cozy little room. What is your ideal world? A more eco-friendly world, or a world without divided and discrimination. This world is now in your hand. Draw it down! Huion is holding a drawing contest as we would love to see your drawings of your ideal world.
Entries must be conceived and completed by the participants AFTER the official start date (July 20th, 2021) and submitted to huion.com BEFORE 23:59, 59 PDT, September 5th 2021.
  1. Submission: 2021.07.20 00:00 — 2021.09.05 23:59;
  2. Judgement Phrase: 2021.09.06 00:00 — 2021.09.13 23:59;
  3. Winner Announcement: 2021.09.14 00:00;

joi, 22 iulie 2021

News : NeuMIP is a neural method for materials.

We propose NeuMIP, a neural method for representing and rendering a variety of material appearances at different scales. Classical prefiltering (mipmapping) methods work well on simple material properties such as diffuse color, but fail to generalize to normals, self-shadowing, fibers or more complex microstructures and reflectances. In this work, we generalize traditional mipmap pyramids to pyramids of neural textures, combined with a fully connected network. We also introduce neural offsets, a novel method which enables rendering materials with intricate parallax effects without any tessellation. This generalizes classical parallax mapping, but is trained without supervision by any explicit heightfield. Neural materials within our system support a 7-dimensional query, including position, incoming and outgoing direction, and the desired filter kernel size. The materials have small storage (on the order of standard mipmapping except with more texture channels), and can be integrated within common Monte-Carlo path tracing systems. We demonstrate our method on a variety of materials, resulting in complex appearance across levels of detail, with accurate parallax, self-shadowing, and other effects.
You can see more at this webpage.
A good demo can be found here.

News : Sketchfab and Epic Games family.

We are excited to announce that today Sketchfab has joined the Epic Games family. Sketchfab makes it easy to discover, edit, buy, and sell 3D content directly through their web-based service and is home to 4 million 3D assets. Their technology has integrations across every major 3D creation tool and publishing platform and is compatible across all major browsers and operating systems, on both desktop and mobile. By joining forces, Epic and Sketchfab will be able to make 3D, AR and VR content more accessible and grow the creator ecosystem, which are critical to an open and interconnected Metaverse.
You can read more at epic games official website.

marți, 20 iulie 2021

Try 3DSLASH online tool.

You can test this online tool on this webpage.
The new release 3.1.0 is available!
You can now enjoy the sound of your tools!
The new engraving feature simplifies many operations, such as reproducing a pattern, engraving a name or even... make a hole!
FBX and Collada exporters open the way to 3D creation for games, programming and Virtual Reality.
Now, you can now export to glTF 2.0.

sâmbătă, 17 iulie 2021

Ubisoft: For Honor new sensitive elements for users.

It is recognized that Ubisoft has sensitive elements related to the user's game mode and completes the game mode. Here is an example from the already classic game For Honor.
The Emotes Elegant Dance and Very Discontent along with the Incalescent Memory Mood Effect are now available!

Blender 3D : FaceBuilder from keentools.

This keentools webpage providde many tools for users.
One of these is the FaceBuilder tool for Blender 3D software.
FaceBuilder​ is an add-on for Blender for 3D-modelling of human faces and heads based on photos. With FaceBuilder you don’t need to be an experienced 3D modeler to create a quality 3D model with clean topology. You start with getting a few photos of a person from different angles of view and then place a model on each of them to build a head or a face model. The 3D models can be later used for sculpting, animation, tracking or anything else in Blender or exported into a file and imported into any other 3D software.
Let's see the install step from the official youtube channel:
... and these videos with this tool:

luni, 12 iulie 2021

Shadertoy: iChannel texture - 005.

This simple example is a kaleidoscope distorsion with math functions: sine and cosine.
You can see this book name it A Mathematical Kaleidoscope: Applications in Industry, Business and Science by B Conolly, S. Vajda how math can solve many issues.
You can change the parameters to see how they interact and how the distortions and use the mouse.

vineri, 9 iulie 2021

Shadertoy: iChannel texture - 004.

Here is a simple example that can help us understand a bit about the theory of spatial frequency.
This theory is used in various fields as wave propagation.
The example is very simple for a better understanding.
You can change the parameters to see how they interact and how the distortions are.

sâmbătă, 3 iulie 2021

Artbreeder is the new online tool for artists.

A new kind of creative tool that is part game, part tool, and part social network that enables infinite exploration. Create images by simply "breeding" them.
You can see mode on the official webpage about Artbreeder online tool.
This is a video with this tool:

vineri, 2 iulie 2021

News : Frostborn from Kefir Games.

The russian game development named Kefir Games comes with a new game: Frostborn.
The Ice Abode, Treasures of the North, new camp buildings and chat improvements await in a new update, immortals!