BlenderArt Magazine - an inspiration for 3D graphics.

   I watched the magazine since the beginning of her appearance. It seems that the two editors Sandra Gilbert and Gaurav Nawani, have managed to maintain a high level for users of Blender 3D. I'm impressed by the work of them.

What is this magazine ? See bellow:
  "The magazine was started for the blender community, having the aim of publishing a bi-monthly PDF magazine; free for download. The goal of the magazine is to provide quality learning content for the blender community, from the efforts of the community itself. BlenderArt Magazine is released 

under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 license."

 

Below you can find the titles and links required to read magazine.

ISSUE 35: Character Building!

September 2011 /// 49 PGS - 9.3 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 34: Rigs, Add-ons and More!

July 2011 /// 36 PGS - 6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 33: Everything but the Kitchen Sink

May 2011 /// 50 PGS - 7.4 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 32: Spring is Sprung

March 2011 /// 50 PGS - 5.5 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 31: Under The Microscope

December 2010 /// 30 PGS - 23.4 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 30: Once Upon An Image

October 2010 /// 53 PGS - 16.1 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 29: Industrial Revolution

August 2010 /// 46 PGS - 6.7 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 28: Blender 2.5

June 2010 /// 49 PGS - 3.2 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 27: Shadow Showdown

April 2010 /// 41 PGS - 6.5 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 26: Blender & Gaming

February 2010 /// 46 PGS - 5.2 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 25: Winter Wonderland

December 2009 /// 44 PGS - 31.2 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 24: From out of the deep

October 2009 /// 42 PGS - 7.4 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 23: Epic Fantasy

August 2009 /// 38 PGS - 8 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 22: Things that go bump in the night!

June 2009 /// 48 PGS - 7.5 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 21: Look What I Can Do!

April 2009 /// 95 PGS - 15 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 20: Make it! Bake it! Fake it!

February 2009 /// 41 PGS - 5.9 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 19: Rigging & Constraints

December 2008 /// 59 PGS - 8.2 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 18: Landscapes, Environments & Sets

September 2008 /// 82 PGS - 13.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 17: Lighting, Rendering, Video Editing

July 2008 /// 38 PGS - 5.3 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 16: WOW! Factor (Physical Simulation, Particles etc.)

May 2008 /// 63 PGS - 9 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 15: Animation

March 2008 /// 75 PGS - 9.1 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 14: Cartoon & Game Engine

January 2008 /// 90 PGS - 9.1 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 13: Fantasy

November 2007 /// 73 PGS - 10.3 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 12: Texturing

September 2007 /// 45 PGS - 6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 11: Mechanical

July 2007 /// 60 PGS - 5.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 10: Organics

May 2007 /// 63 PGS - 6.9 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 9: Space

March 2007 /// 63 PGS - 5.3 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 8: Car Modeling Mega Special

January 2007 /// 71 PGS - 4 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 7: Blender Materials

November 2006 /// 46 PGS - 5.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 6: Architecture & Games

September 2006 /// 45 PGS - 5.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 5: Modeling Techniques & Blender Scripts

July 2006 /// 78 PGS - 6.7 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 4: Character Modeling

May 2006 /// 96 PGS - 3.5 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 3: Rendering

March 2006 /// 45 PGS - 3.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 2: Animation

January 2006 /// 60 PGS - 5.9 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 1: Mechanical Modeling

November 2005 /// 42 PGS - 5.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

The digital magazine WGE:MAG - Issue 3

The WGE:MAG, the digital magazine of the World Gaming Executives comes with several interesting articles, here are some:
Hero Engine - Creating the online game
A Comic Book Hero - Diggle talks games
You can download the WGE:MAG from here.

News about NeoAxis Game Engine: The new version 1.11

The NeoAxis Engine come today with the version 1.11, read more on official website.
NeoAxis Group announces that NeoAxis Engine and its SDK was updated to version 1.11. NeoAxis Engine is an all-purpose 3D engine for games development, simulations and visualization systems creation. New version includes fixes for bugs that has been discovered since version 1.1, adds Parallax Occlusion Mapping technology and support for Autodesk 3dsMax Design 2011/2012 in Model Exporter.

New magazine about game development WGE:MAG

First off, we have an exciting announcement about a great new magazine dedicated to game development. This is named WGE:MAG. In this moment we can read the number two of this issue. This new magazine comes with article about console, mobile and online gamesdevelopers, artists, programmers, players and everything about games and gaming. Download this from here and it's free. This magazine is make by www.worldgamingexecutives.com.

Simple X11 example application .

You can see a simple X11 example application on www.geeks3d.com. The author say us:

Here is the full source code of a simple X11 app that creates a X window and displays some basic information about the system. To quit the app, two ways are available:

I tested this source code and is very easy to understand .

Jpcsp PlayStation Portable emulator

Jpcsp is just one PlayStation Portable emulator. This emulator software allowing you to play your PSP games on a PC. You can take it from here. First , you must have have the JRE - Java on your computer. I use on my Fedora 16 the package : jre-6u27-linux-i586.bin. Also, I use this command to start the emulator:

$ java -Xmx1024m -Djava.library.path=lib/linux-x86 -jar bin/jpcsp.jar

The result is shown in the following screenshot:

Qt with threaded OpenGL support.

Here's a pretty exciting news for developers. Qt, the cross-platform application and user interface framework, is available in version 4.8.0 under fedora 16. The new Ot has the threaded OpenGL support. Under Fedora 16 , we have the development packages:

(1/2): libXv-devel-1.0.6-2.fc15.i686.rpm                 |  38 kB     00:00     
(2/2): qt-devel-4.8.0-0.23.rc1.fc16.i686.rpm             |  10 MB     00:03 

We expect developers will use this functionality to create new graphics applications.

3D engine for Java developers

Who wants to write 3D games that run on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android ?
If you are a Java developer and you want do that , then use jMonkeyEngine framework jME).
The engine is written in Java and uses LWJGL for OpenGL access.
It is a high-performance, 3D scenegraph-based graphics API with state-of-the-art features.
The jME3 is completely open-source under the BSD license and it is free to use it.
You can find documentation, help and a nice community around JME and jMonkeyEngine.
jMonkeyEngine Homepage
Wiki
Forum

China will launch first 3D television channel in January

The Internet brings us news about 3D television, in a region less than expected - China.

Beijing: Television viewers in China can expect a totally different viewing experience as the country's hopes to launch its first 3D television channel Jan 1, 2012, the government has announced. The TV channel will go into official operation during the Lunar New Year Festival in late January, Xinhua reported.

Read more on this site.

Construct 2 Release r68

This is just a new visual tool for HTML5 game development.
Construct 2 is an program that lets you make games .
Also seam is not programming required...
The development team show us a video and let us to see that.
You can download this from here.

OpenACC new standard ...

OpenACC is a new standard for parallel programming developed by NVIDIA.
The GPU Computing and Parallel Computing PGI Accelerator directives are the basis of the OpenACC standard.
Most people do not know hardware issues, it is still necessary for them to know the evolution of technology in the field of 3D.
Here's a demo video about this technology.

Illyriad’s 3d Town rough demo with WebGL

The team development of Illyriad game try to use webgl API.
The result is a rough and ready demo.
The team tee us about this demo :
It’s very rough, not optimized and currently only runs on Chrome [working in all browsers that support WebGL is our priority]; but that’s kind of the point – its a technology tester to ensure we weren’t making a mistake.
I saw the screenshots and videos , but on my laptop the demo give me some errors.
The beginning is good , I hope will see in the future a good game, not just only a demo.
You can read more on this site.

3-D Simulations of Nova Explosions

On October 20, 2011 sciencedaily web site announced that:
Scientists at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) have for the first time simulated critical phenomena.
Novae are cataclysmic stellar phenomena. This new study solving an enigma that has puzzled stellar astrophysicists for over half a century.
This simulations is maked with the MareNostrum supercomputer after 150,000 hours of calculation.
You can read more about this on article.