The Corona Renderer developed by Chaos Czech is a leading renderer for architectural visualization. Image by Jesus Selvera. (Source: Corona Group) In the world of Chaos, one press release is never enough. No, the company sends them out like little soldiers one after the other. Most recently, Chaos Czech, formerly the Render Legion group which was acquired by Chaos … Read more
Last year, NewTek released Lightwave 2018; this year, the company released LightWave 2019. To anyone who hasn’t covered the trials and tribulations of LightWave that doesn’t seem like big news, but the company has famously struggled to upgrade LightWave in reasonable amounts of time. Worse, the company tends to communicate with users in fits and starts, promising great new features, … Read more
MakerBot is back, and they mean business. In 2012, Bre Pettis made a very big splash on the 3D printer scene with his Replicator, which he was pitching as a household gadget. It came around right about the same time as 3D Systems Cube printer for consumers and for a short time, both devices broke the 3D printer market causing … Read more
The Academy Awards have been announced and now the jockeying for position has begun, but all the deciding has been done for Academy’s Science and Technical Awards and the usual suspects welcome a new entrant to the ranks. Maxon’s Cinema 4D has been recognized for the first time by the Academy. Per-Anders will be awarded an Academy of Motion Picture … Read more
Every year, Futuremark, now part of UL Labs and simply known as “UL,” added new benchmark tests to its iconic 3DMark. Each test was designed for a specific class of hardware or a particular API. Since 2013, they’ve added tests that use DirectX 12, tests that run at 4K, tests for notebooks, tablets, and smartphones, as well as new features … Read more
Using an airplane to take pictures of the ground and then translate the images into maps was first reported as being done by the French photographer and balloonist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, in 1858 over Paris. Aerial photography 1918 (source National Geo-Spatial) During World War 1, the English (and the Germans) used aerial reconnaissance extensively and during that time, in 1912, Frederick … Read more
In between 2D and 3D, there is space—space that humans can understand visually and can often communicate gesturally but challenging for pen and paper. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has revealed the work they’ve done to enable 3D sketching that takes advantage of people’s spatial understanding. Researchers Bae Seok-Hyung, Kim Yongkwan, Sang-Gyun An, Joon Hyub Lee … Read more
Dassault introduced the 3DExperience Marketplace in February 2018 as an online resource for products and services. On introduction Dassault said Marketplace offers access to 50 digital manufacturers with 500 machines and 30 million components from 600 suppliers. Giving designers access to on-demand manufacturing and part sourcing. The marketplace is centralized through Dassault which manages the process of billing, payments, currency … Read more
As you know, X-ray, MRI, and CAT scans are reproduced in monochrome, between 12 and 16 bits/pixel, which corresponds to 4,096–65,536 shades of gray. But what if, instead of a black and white X-ray picture, you and/or a doctor could have images that identified the tissues being scanned? Such a color X-ray imaging technique could presumably produce clearer and more … Read more
In June, Dassault announced the acquisition of No Magic, a company specializing in model-based systems engineering (MBSE). No Magic will become part of the Catia family of applications. No Magic’s tools are cloud based, and, as the name suggests, direct, logical, and easy to use, but it’s also a true MBSE tool in that it attempts to enable all methods … Read more
Smartphone attachment sees concealed weapons and explosives
We’re catching up with science-fiction. The idea of being able to hold a personal device and scan a room and the people in it, to learn in real time if any of them are of interest, or more darkly, carrying anything dangerous really is the stuff science-fiction. And yet, it’s here now. Founded in early 2017 in West Hollywood-based RH … Read more
