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marți, 12 septembrie 2017

The Lithosphere Terrain Generator.



This is a 3D software for terrain generator named lithosphere.
Is simple to use it because use nodes.
You to create and export material textures and heightmaps intended for use in realtime graphics applications.

Features

  • Realtime terrain modification
  • Save/Open of scene.lth files
  • Simplex noise height source
  • Wind and Erosion algorithms
  • Gaussian Filtering
  • Mixing and Adjusting
  • Mathemathical operators
  • Float array and DXF mesh export
  • PNG texture export

Requirements

Lithosphere requires a fast computer and graphics card to operate. It also requires specific opengl compatibility
  • OpenGL shading language version 1.20
  • GL_ARB_texture_float
  • GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
  • GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
  • GL_ARB_framebuffer_object

Recommended system specs

  • Intel Quad Core CPU
  • 2gb RAM
  • Nvidia Geforce GTX-285
  • 1gb video ram

Working with

  • Nvidia Geforce GTX-285
  • Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS
  • Nvidia Quadro FX1700 512mb

sâmbătă, 9 septembrie 2017

Opera : Make an animated wallpaper.

In this tutorial I will show you how to make your animated wallpaper for Opera browser.
First you need to create a folder.
In this folder you need to have three files:
  • one video file that is show on browser named: video.webm;
  • one file with a same size like video file named: cover.jpg;
  • one file named : persona.ini;
The image file cover.jpg is the first frame from video file: video.webm.
The file named persona.ini come with this text:
; Licensed under CC-BY 
; Video by cascada internet gif 
;
[Info] Name = yourwallpaper 
Author = Your name 
Author URL = Your URL website 
Version = 2 
[Start Page] Background = video.webm 
Position = center bottom 
[Web UI Pages] Background = cover.jpg 
Position = center bottom 
I used Blender 3D to make my video and extract the first image for cover.
You can find many tools on web to solve this issue.
Unzip all this three files into one zip named: yourwallpaper.zip.
You can test your animated wallpaper using drag and drop into wallpaper area from your browser.
Also , you can upload it to Opera browser addons.
You can download this animated wallpaper from here.
I used a animated gif of Shiraito Falls (is a waterfall in Fujinomiya, Japan) from internet and Blender 3D to make my own animated wallpaper for Opera browser.

vineri, 8 septembrie 2017

The Magic Actions for YouTube addon .

The Magic Actions for YouTube is an addon that makes a beautiful dynamic lighting effect around the player on YouTube and come with many features for videos:
This addon can be used with Opera , Firefox and Chrome and can be found here .

miercuri, 6 septembrie 2017

Try processing js on Android OS.

If you like to code in processing.js, then this application will fulfill your wish on your phone or tablet with android operating system.
The APDE - Android Processing IDE requires the following permissions:
  • modify and delete the contents of your USB storage - required to save sketches to the external storage 
  • control vibration - required to provide haptic feedback, which can be turned off in Settings 
This includes a quick-run JavaScript - Sandbox and a tutorials that are explained in more details.
The development team from CalsignLabs has just one person.
This tell us about this alpha released application:

APDE (Android Processing Development Environment) is an integrated development environment for creating Processing sketches on your phone/tablet. APDE supports the full edit, compile, and run cycle. You don't need a computer or an SDK to start coding on the go.

The application can be found on google play here.

marți, 5 septembrie 2017

Huge image with earth map .

You can get a huge image with earth from here.
The resolution of this image is 21600x10800 and the size on hard disk is 28.3 MB . See a smaller version of this image:

The photopea - web tool.

Today I will introduce you a new web tool for drawing and graphic processing from photopea website.
This web tool resembles a very familiar program.
Also, this tool comes with some simple filters and keyboard shortcuts.
It can export some types of classic files (PNG, JPG, SVG, WEBP and GIF) as well you can save to PSD type file.
You can take a webcam picture and publish to web.
You can register as a free account or paid account .
You can test and run the java script and come with few simple examples.

luni, 4 septembrie 2017

The SVG editor - web tool .

If you want a SVG editor the you can test this web tool from  here.
The web tool named SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, javascript-driven SVG drawing editor that works in any modern browser.
Is more simple like Inkscape and can be used online.
Also you can download it and test it like stand alone tool .
I try to use Export and Save Image , but seem not work with Opera browser.
I solve this issue with key U - Apply Changes and then with Copy - Paste into new SVG file.

The G'MIC - web tool .

This webtool allow you to test the G'MIC tools for images.
As you know the G'MIC is a set of tools to change image and use effects.
G'MIC is an open-source product developped and hosted at the GREYC research lab.
Let's start with Open file ... and then select the filter to change it.
The tool come with 343 filters and each filter can be change it from parameters.
When you finish it use Render full image button and the Download button .

joi, 31 august 2017

The FotoForensics - web tool.

The FotoForensics is a website offering a free tool to analyze photo manipulation.
Users can see the Error Level Analysis (ELA) algorithm and determine if a picture is real or computer graphics.
With a bit of experience ELA users can also learn to identify image scaling, quality, cropping, and resave transformations.
This website come also with many options to test your picture from computer or URL.
More about this web tool here.

miercuri, 30 august 2017

About Google ARCore SDK .

This is a new feature of Google team and is named ARCore.
They tell us about the ARCore :

Introducing a preview of a new SDK called ARCore. It brings augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones. Developers can start experimenting with it right now. 

This feature work with : Android Studio , Unity and Unreal.
If you want to test it you can find the source code on github .

News: Blender 3D version 2.79 - the new Blender 2.8 Branch.

Today I tested the new Blender 2.8 Branch from version 2.79 of Blender 3D software and is working well.
The new branch come with the new render Eevee and many of old 2.79 features:
  • Cycles: Built-in Denoising, Shadow catcher, Principled shader, AMD OpenCL optimizations.
  • Grease Pencil: New frame interpolation tools, per-layer onion skinning.
  • Alembic: Improvements to compatibility, stability and support.
  • User Interface: Initial support for reusable custom configurations, automatic DPI scaling.
  • Twenty Three new and several updated add-ons.
  • And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!
Next is a screenshot of this release:

joi, 17 august 2017

Another game engine: GameSalad .

About this game engine named GameSalad you must know:
  GameSalad is a drag-and-drop coding platform that makes teaching your students the fundamentals of computer science easy and fun! Students learn valuable logic and architecture skills as they progress in computer science achievement.
This game engine come with many features, like:

  • publish to iPad , iPhone , Kindle , Nook , MacBook and many devices;
  • you can tested free and also come with a custom plan built for you;
  • just 4 day free trial;
  • is simple to use it, less code;
  • can be publish to web publish.gamesalad.com/gameproj/... ;
  • The official gameSalad marketplace is gshelper.com ;
You can see video on youtube official channel:

miercuri, 16 august 2017

Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator - to simulate your battles.

This software named Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator can simulate battles with different characters.
The development team tell us about this software:
Here is a sandbox like no other. Create massive battles with absolutely no limits. Want to see 10,000 chickens fight an army of Romans?? Sure, why not. Want to see a company of WW2 U.S soldiers fight 11,000 Medieval soldiers?? There are simply no limits to the carnage you can achieve in UEBS.

      SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
  • OS: Windows Vista Or Later
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 4590, AMD FX 8320 or greater
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics:  (DirectX 11) AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB | NVIDIA GTS 450 1024MB | Intel HD4000 @720P.
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage:  5 GB available space
  • You can download it from steam store.