News: Blender 3D - version 2.79

The Blender 3D is an open source software with a great team.
They tell us about this new released version of Blender 3D:
These are the release notes for Blender 2.79, released September 12th, 2017.

• Denoiser
• PBR Shader
• Shadow Catcher
• Filmic Color Management
• Faster AMD OpenCL
• over 700 bugs fixed
• so much more!

Some features can be found here.
You can also download this 3D software from here.

After you download it, you need to run the install executable for Windows.
If you use a Linux OS then you just run it with: ./blender.
You can the windows of this 3D software tool into the next image:
The next step is to set the Blender 3D from menu: File -> User Preferences ( or use keys Ctr - Alt - U ).
First step:
 - set your CPU or graphic card - GPU into System tab;
 - set your addons to see if works with this version;
 - test all this with a simple example but using all renders: ( Blender, Cycles and Blender Game); 

Some addons I used: ANT Landscape, animation-nodes, blam, blender-light-studio, mira-tools, uvsquares. 
You can find more about this addons blenderartists website.

News: Krita 3.3.0 – first release candidate.

This release come with some improvements and features:

• support for the Windows 8 event API;
• hardware-accelerated display functionality to optionally use Angle on Windows instead of native OpenGL;
• some visual glitches when using hi-dpi screens are fixed
• several new command line options;
• the performance improvements and selections are fixed;
• the system information dialog for bug reports is improved

You can read more about this release here.

Using processing.js to test ControlP5 .

The ControlP5 is a gui library written by Andreas Schlegel for the programming environment processing.
You can add this library open the processing IDE and under menu select Tools -> Add Tool ... . Use editbox to search the library named ControlP5 .
You can find many examples on official website.
Let's see how is look the Textarea GUI using processing IDE - official website example:

Create 3D text with HTML 5 .

This is the result of this tutorial:

The example is simple and use two ways to draw text.
First use a function how make the text by using index variable to put on canvas same text.
The next use function strokeText to add to canvas the text.
The onload function is used to put on canvas all you need to see.
This is the source code for java script I used into head HTML5 tag :
window.onload = function(){
 var canvas = document.getElementById("3dCanvas");
 var canvasWidth = canvas.width;
 var canvasHeight = canvas.height;
 var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
 ctx.font = "20pt Verdana";
 ctx.fillStyle = "black";
 ctx.textAlign = "center";
 // first
 drawTextInCanvas(ctx , "graphic-3d.blogspot.com", canvasWidth/2, canvasHeight/2, 4);
 // the next
 ctx.strokeText('... read this website !', 150, 150);
};

function drawTextInCanvas(ctx, mytext, wdth, hght, dpth){
 var index;
 for (index = 0; index < dpth; index++) {
  ctx.fillText(mytext, wdth - index, hght - index);
 }

 // shadow casting in bottom layers
 ctx.fillStyle = "#30F30F";
 ctx.shadowColor = "black";
 ctx.shadowBlur = 6;
 ctx.shadowOffsetX = dpth+ 2;
 ctx.shadowOffsetY = dpth+ 2;
 ctx.fillText(mytext, wdth - index, hght - index);

}
Then add the canvas tag into body tag with this :
id="3dCanvas" width="400" height="200" style="border:1px solid black;"

Website tool for chemical data and infos.

Another website tool for chemical graphics and cheminformatics library.
The development team tell us:
The ChemDoodle Web Components library is a pure Javascript chemical graphics and cheminformatics library derived from the ChemDoodle® application and produced by iChemLabs. ChemDoodle Web Components allow the wielder to present publication quality 2D and 3D graphics and animations for chemical structures, reactions and spectra. Beyond graphics, this tool provides a framework for user interaction to create dynamic applications through web browsers, desktop platforms and mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. This library also has complete access to the entire ChemDoodle desktop API through AJAX, allowing for quick access to one of the most robust chemical graphics and informatics packages in existence directly through Javascript. The goal of the project is to utilize the next-generation HTML5 technologies to power the scientific and educational applications of the future. iChemLabs is dedicated to funding, developing and hosting this library and has released it for free under the open-source GPL license. By releasing ChemDoodle Web Components open-source, yet continuing to financially support the library, iChemLabs ensures that the next generation of scientific applications is easily achievable by academia, government and industry, and helps to make sure that the cost of education decreases while using the web to further spread science.
This tool can be found on this website.

The Santa Tracker website for kids.

This website will help with the education of the children and more so will prepare you for the winter holidays.
Start in this adventure by clicking on the icon with the upper left lines and you have access to Santa's surprises.