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duminică, 15 martie 2020

Unity 3D : The new learning area ...

The Unity 3D game engine comes with significant improvements in the learning area.
If you know nothing about Unity Editor and C # then this area has a simple and efficient introduction for new developers of this game engine.
For example , see the Creator Kit: Beginner Code.
You can start with John Lemon's Haunted Jaunt: 3D Beginner or with the Ruby's Adventure: 2D Beginner.
I am starting to see how deep and good these tutorials are and for me it was quick to follow them and use them.
This is an more advance learn step from Unity 3D using the Creator Kit: Beginner Code.

duminică, 1 martie 2020

Another form of art: Deep Dream Generator tool.

Deep Style. The technique is a much more advanced version of the original Deep Dream approach. It is capable of using its own knowledge to interpret a ... We are just a small team of enthusiasts who are trying to build something cool. Our goal is to make the latest developments in AI widely and freely accessible.
This online tool lets you use the power of the computer to lineup the images into a new form of art.
See all artwork of the online tool on this website, where you can test it.
Create your account, upload your photo to create your new art image.

marți, 25 februarie 2020

Contest from HUION.

Another contest from HUION with the theme named Distant Worlds in 2020.
The HUION team comes with this intro:

We all love good novels and movies. Those wonderful stories show us possibilities that happen far in the future or adventures happen in distant worlds. But sometimes the stories set in a certain year. There was a space odyssey happened in 2001, Harry Porter sent little Albus to school in 2017, Roy Batty the android passed away in 2019… And now the Year 2020 is here. What will happen in 2020, what will the world looks like in 2020, join in #Huion2020 drawing challenge, draw your imagination down!

The contest can be found here.

Unity 3D on Fedora 31 Linux distro.

First, you need to have good hardware to run the Unity 3D software on Fedora 31 Linux.
To install on Fedora 31 Linux is easy to do. You need to download the Unity beta application from this website.
[mythcat@desk ~]$ cd Downloads/
[mythcat@desk Downloads]$ chmod +x UnitySetup-2018.2.7f1 
You need to install this package for this file: libgconf-2.so.4
[root@desk Downloads]# dnf install GConf2-devel.x86_64
The next step is simple run the installer and follow the interface...
[mythcat@desk Downloads]$ ./UnitySetup-2018.2.7f1 
If you want to use a free license then you need to save the license from application into the file named Unity_v2018.2.7f1.alf .
Using the Unity website manual activate the free license and download the file named Unity_v2018.x.ulf. You can use the UnityHub.AppImage from Unity official website to install any Unity 3D version:
[mythcat@desk Downloads]$ chmod +x UnityHub.AppImage 
[mythcat@desk Downloads]$ ./UnityHub.AppImage 
See the screenshots:

marți, 18 februarie 2020

The new Huion Sketch application for drawing.

The development team from Huion comes with this intro:
 Huion Sketch is an intuitive drawing app with a palette icon and notebook icon for sketching and noting. The interface of the notebook is in a minimal design with several brush and color options on the top. The art canvas boasts a range of drawing features while maintaining a minimalistic interface.
Huion Sketch offers you more creative possibilities with 18 brush options, layers, and many tools.
You can use multi-touch gestures with your workflow.
All Huion tablet models with the firmware upgrade, including H320M, HS64, HS64 SE, HS610, and Q620M are all compatible with Huion Sketch.
The official webpage can be found at this website.
The application for android O.S. can be downloaded from Google Play.
You can see a video tutorial from the official youtube channel of Huion.

duminică, 16 februarie 2020

PicsArt is the best application for edit photos.

This application lets you create quick and amazing photo edits in your browser for free.
You can use it with the IOS, Windows or Android applications on your device.
The development team come with this intro:
Download PicsArt and enjoy our tools, effects, collage maker, free clipart library, custom stickers, double exposure & drawing tools. PicsArt’s all about making awesome pictures and having fun by remixing free-to-edit pictures into awesome collages.
This is a video tutorial from official youtube channel about how to create your own T-Shirt with PicsArt.
This online tool can be found at the official website.

vineri, 24 ianuarie 2020

New features for vimeo website.

The VIMEO website comes with new features for video editing.
These features for users can be used with these steps:
  • Simple start with custom video templates; 
  • Use colors, fonts, layouts, music, and more;
  • Use the smart editor to turn your clips into a published video;
  • Finally, share your videos across all social platforms.
See these features on the official website.

joi, 16 ianuarie 2020

AI Dungeon 2 a game based on OpenAI.

The OpenAI is a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.
It supports teaching agents everything from walking to playing games.
The AI Dungeon 2 is an online game run by a text generation program.
This program is capable of responding to basically any command with a coherent response built on OpenAI’s text production system.
You can start by selecting the game genre: fantasy, mystery, apocalyptic, zombies, custom.
The creator Nick Walton is running a Patreon campaign so he can work on the project full time and add new features like voice support.
It’s currently raising around $15,000 a month.
You can try it online on this webpage.
If you have an apple device then use the App Store.
If you use an Android device then you can download it from Google Play.
This is a screenshot from this game ...

miercuri, 8 ianuarie 2020

Copernicus Open Access Hub online tool.

Looking at our planet and its environment For the ultimate benefit of all European citizens... The Open Access Hub provides complete, free and open access to Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-5P user products... 
Copernicus builds on a constellation of satellites making millions an impressive number of daily observations, as well as on a global network of thousands of land-, air- and marine-based sensors to create the most detailed pictures of Earth. The technological evolution, especially in terms of availability and accessibility, has made Copernicus the largest space data provider in the world, currently producing 12 terabytes per day. 
The vast majority of data and information delivered by the Copernicus Space infrastructure and the Copernicus services are made available and accessible to any citizen and any organization around the world on a free, full and open access basis. You can access Copernicus Data and Information Services through the DIAS or the Conventional Data Hubs...
See this online tool scihub.copernicus.eu with data and maps from satellites...

luni, 6 ianuarie 2020

The home build tool with Planner5d.

This online tool lets you build into 3D space.
The development team comes with this intro:
Create your dream home An advanced and easy-to-use 2D/3D home design tool. Join a community of 47 217 259 amateur designers.
The online tool can be found at this website.
This is a screenshot with this tool from the website:

joi, 2 ianuarie 2020

Shadertoy: The sin math function - 001.

Another example with shadertoy online tool.
The example come with all comments to understand how the sine function is show on shadertoy website.

luni, 9 decembrie 2019

MakeHuman: Nightly builds of (most) plugins.

At 11/18/2019 the MakeHuman team development comes with many plugins for MakeHuman software: These are plugins related to MakeHuman. The MakeHuman side plugins are installed by placing the directory (for example "9_export_mhx2") in the "plugins" directory where you unzipped or installed MakeHuman. On linux this is usually /usr/share/makehuman/plugins. The Blender side plugins are installed in Blender, in the addons part of the user preferences.
See the official website.

miercuri, 4 decembrie 2019

Lutris the Open Source gaming platform for any Linux distro.

Lutris is an Open Source gaming platform for Linux. It installs and launches games so you can start playing without the hassle of setting up your games. Get your games from GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Uplay and many other sources running on any Linux powered gaming machine.
You need to create an account and you can run many games on Linux and multiple platforms, see the official website with games.
If you want to install it with your Linux distro the take a look at the official webpage.
I used the installation process on Fedora 31 with DNF tool:
[root@desk mythcat]# sudo dnf install lutris
Last metadata expiration check: 0:06:35 ago on Wed 04 Dec 2019 07:15:23 PM EET.
Dependencies resolved.
======================================================================================
 Package                    Arch       Version                      Repository   Size
======================================================================================
Installing:
 lutris                     x86_64     0.5.3-1.fc31                 fedora      2.0 M
...
Total download size: 129 M
Installed size: 708 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
...
  llvm-libs-9.0.0-1.fc31.i686           ncurses-libs-6.1-12.20190803.fc31.i686       
  python3-evdev-1.1.2-4.fc31.x86_64     unixODBC-2.3.7-5.fc31.x86_64                 
  vulkan-loader-1.1.114.0-1.fc31.i686  

Complete!