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Iranian actress Leila Hatami selected for French festival jury .
TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) — Iranian actress Leila Hatami is among the jury members of the 37th Deauville American Film Festival, which will be held from September 3 to 12 in France.
Alongside Sabrina Ouazani, Elisa Sednaoui, and Benjamin Siksou, Hatami will judge the Revelation section of the festival, which wil be headed by Samuel Benchetrit.
They will pick ...
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To each their own ways of computing normal maps. This partly explains the chaos in Universe.
Today, we’ll try to shed the light over what distinguish games with perfect normal maps from… well, sub-standard normal maps.
Bump maps are texture maps used as an height index (a monochrome value) for each texel. Normal maps are more elaborated in the sense that they use 3 channels to specify a three dimensionnal vector per texel.
What calculations ...
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Vancouver, Canada, 9 August 2011: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, is showing with partners the first examples of a growing portfolio of solutions based on the new Brazil™ 3.0 beta interactive ray tracing renderer, built using Imagination’s ground-breaking Caustic ray tracing technologies including the OpenRL™ API, at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver Canada (Booth 129, August 9-11).
Imagination is demonstrating the beta version of its powerful new rendering engine, ...
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New open API specification available immediately; Developer feedback integrated into wide-ranging performance and functionality enhancements
August 8th, 2011 – Vancouver, SIGGRAPH 2011 – The Khronos™ Group today announced the immediate release of the OpenGL® 4.2 specification, bringing the very latest graphics functionality to the most advanced and widely adopted cross-platform 2D and 3D graphics API (application programming interface). OpenGL 4.2 integrates developer feedback and continues the rapid evolution of this royalty-free ...
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What is the #2 feature on Uservoice? Render Passes. What is the #1 interop feature requested on the Community Voice survey? Adobe After Effects. You got both plus much more in this latest subscription release from the wizards of Montreal and thereabouts.
Starting with Adobe After Effects and Photoshop interop, we’ve been working with Adobe for awhile to develop the very ...
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As mentioned earlier, Michael Bunnell’s key idea was to avoid ray tracing and radiosity altogether, relying instead on a point cloud format. So how do we get occlusion and color bleeding with this method? From the point of RenderMan, it is a two step process: First, a pre-pass generates a point cloud of the scene geometry and illumination in a process informally called “baking a point cloud.” Each point includes ...
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In this double feature we have the great pleasure to present you with the history of 3D Studio as related by the head and leader of the Yost Group: Gary Yost himself. Gary shares his experiences of more than a decade of 3D Studio and 3DS Max development, along with many unique facts and anecdotes gained from his personal ...
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Making of 2012
Sam Khorshid from Uncharted Territory talks to Cebas about working on Roland Emerich’s latest movie, “2012″. Possibly the most ambitious VFX movie to date.
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Cebas: I think it’s safe to say that 2012 is the most highly anticipated VFX movie this year. Can you tell us how you were involved in the production ...
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