Web3D Project by Eyes, JAPAN

アップルは、新製品のiMacを4モデル発売しました。今回の新製品では全てのモデルで新インターフェイスThunderbolt、CPUはクアッドコアCore i5プロセッサがを搭載しており、FaceTime HDカメラ、FireWire 800(IEEE 1394b)、USB 2.0×4を装備とのこと。いよいよ、Thunderbolt搭載のPCが登場です。

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iPhone4発売の前にiPhone OS あらため iOS の最新版 iOS 4がリリースされました。
対応端末はiPhone 3GS・3G・iPod touchの3つですが、マルチタスクなどの機能は3Gでは使用できないなど、端末ごとに一部機能の制限があります。アップグレードには最新版のiTunesが必要です。

Apple

turlif 投稿 “Until March 31, CoCreate Software is offering a free download of OneSpace Modeling 3D Personal Edition — they are calling the world’s first free web-based dynamic modeling-based 3D CAD software. This version is designed for engineers, designers, students, casual users or hobbyists. It includes self-paced tutorials, quick-start projects, online help and user forums.
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turlif 投稿 “Groboto, a 3d art and animation package, has been released by Braid Art Labs. The application is a mere $79 (USD), and can be used to create complex, dynamic forms and animations. The software is made to be very easy to use, without the steep learning curve of other modeling and animation packages. GroBoto features intelligent algorithmic drawing tools, ‘Bots’, which create geometric forms, abstract and real. The software also offers a Kinetic Morphing animation system, which creates complex fluid motion effects automatically.”

turlif 投稿 “The plant and tree modeling software will be included with 3ds Max 9 release. EASYnat is used to rapidly model and render trees with both full 3d geometry for close-ups and a ‘hybrid’ low=poly bilboard mode that combines both 2D and 3D elements.”

turlif 投稿 “QuadriSpace, a provider of 3D Publishing software for manufacturing, architecture, and digital content, reports that its products have been upgraded to support SolidWorks 2007 and improved 3D PDF publishing. This update produces file sizes that are much smaller than previous versions. QuadriSpace also offers a polygon reduction tool that can further reduce the size of 3D models, by as much as 50%-70%.”

turlif 投稿 “Z Corporation has released its handheld, self-positioning 3D scanner, that can digitize 3D surfaces in real time. By scanning in real time, the target object can be moved during scanning and display the image of the surface being scanned. The object is scanned with dual cameras, and produces a file for import into 3D CAD software. Price: 40,000 USD.”

turlif 投稿 “Ray tracing uses standard optics equations to calculate paths that light takes in a scene. The result is much more realistic scenes than what we see now with raster graphics in 3D games and computer-animated movies. Until recently it was thought that because of the sheer amount of processing power that it takes to determine the correct behavior of the billions of beams of light that can illuminate a scene, ray tracing would never be possible for real-time 3D rendering on standard PC hardware.

Scientific American reports that Intel, the University of Texas and Saarland University are working on making this a reality by improvements in software and hardware to speed up ray tracing by factors of 10″

turlif 投稿 “Next year, ARM will release its first 3D graphics processor, coming after its acquisition of Falanx Microsystems. Initially it will largely be based on Norway-based Falanx’s Mali processor IP, but there are plans for an ARM-branded graphics processor.”

turlif 投稿 “More info will be released in the coming months about Windows’ Vista, the graphical interface, now being called Aero. One of the most impressive features is something Mac users have had accessed to for some time now, the 3D flip. Much like the Alt-Tab Task Switcher, it will present open applications as large live thumbnail views, in 3D. See photo.”

turlif 投稿 “A new version of CADIQ has been released. “It analyses, identifies, and highlights potential shape and fit geometry and topology problems within CAD models that may affect their reuse in downstream applications, such as simulation, data exchange, rapid prototyping and tooling.”

New features:
* updated multi-CAD system support;
* a new STEP Validation Properties Module;
* new and enhanced model quality analysis and comparison diagnostics;
* improved performance for extremely large CAD model analysis, new Excel based statistical analysis and comparison of batch model quality diagnostics results; and
* a major update to the online technical documentation.”

turlif 投稿 “Set for release in August 2006, English version. Key new features:
– 64-bit support for Windows and Linux
– Scalable multithreading to improve performance on multiprocessor
systems
– Ability to override viewports with a user-defined renderer, such as a
game engine
– Optimized mental ray 3.5 core for superior rendering performance and
memory usage
– Polygon Bridge and Transfer Polygon Attributes
– Support for high dynamic range (HDR) and floating-point images
– Support for interactive viewing of native and custom mental ray shaders
– Improved Autodesk FBX plug-in to provide tighter integration between
Maya and applications such as 3ds Max and MotionBuilder
– Interchangeable geometry cache between Maya and 3ds Max, allowing for
the exchange of complex data between the two packages
– Export of render layers to Autodesk Toxik software’s database
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turlif 投稿 “The Open Movie project Elephants Dream, helped push forward a new release of Blender. Version 2.42 has a number of new features, sparked by the development team during movie production: completely revised render pipeline, improved memory management, vector-based blurring, and new node editor. Without having looked at it yet, I can only hope they have also improved the interface, as it can be a difficult program to learn and use.”

私の大好きなLightwaveですが、バージョン8.2が2005年1月下旬から2月下旬のリリースされる予定です。Lightwave[8]ユーザーは無償でアップデートできます。

新たにUVマップのサブパッチ補間や、新しいUV編集ツール、アンチエリアシングの新モード、IKブースターのゴースト表示など、いくつかの新機能が用意されています。
アンチエイリアスの新モードは結構良さ気です。アンチエイリアス処理が早くなって（処理方法は全く違った感じなので単に早くなるだけではありませんが）レンダリング時間が減るのはうれしいですね。

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2004/12/21、maxからエクスポートしたファイルをリアルタイムレンダリングするアプリケーションVR4MAXが　Tree C Technologyによりアップデート(v4.10→v4.11)されました。

変更点：
VR4MAX network licensing managementの改良
VR4MAX Navigatorのバグフィックス

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VRayがマイナーバージョンアップしました。
1.46.08から1.46.09になったようですね。
新機能および改善・不具合の修正点が掲載されています

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Hani TibyがマクロスクリプトPoly Constraintをアップデートしました。（v1.0→v1.1）
以下が変更点です。

・ダイアログを開いたときに選択オブジェクトのコンストレイントの状態にあわせてラジオボタンが切り替わるようになった
・選択オブジェクトが変わったらダイアログの状態も変わるようになった
・編集可能ポリゴンではないオブジェクトを選択してラジオボタンを切り替えるとエラーが起こるバグの修正

ここでダウンロード

レンダラープラグインのfinalRenderがStage1 SP2BからSP2Dにアップデートしました。詳しい変更点は読むことができませんでしたが、詳しい内容はこちらに書かれています。

finalRender Stage-1 ユーザーはフリーでアップグレードできるようです。

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D-STORMのLightwave8日本語版・Lghtwave7.5日本語版・Swift3D LW V2のアップデートパッチが公開されています。

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glu3Dがバージョン1.1.65からvバージョン1.3.01にアップデートしました。

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