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.

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.

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.

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.

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;

See the official webpage.

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.