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Satellite Photos – Japan Before and After Tsunami – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com

26/04/201117/03/2011 by ARF

Satellite Photos – Japan Before and After Tsunami – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com. Trully Impressive. Huge devastation. We should not take things for granted…

Continuum3D Models, free 3D Models

11/09/201117/03/2011 by ARF

Continuum3D Models, free 3D Models. – Free Models of fish, trees, plants, and flowers. Mostly in 3DS, Max and LWS formats.

Textures library

17/03/201117/03/2011 by ARF

Textures library – A very large set of free textures. The collection includes many categories including bump maps.

The GLUT tutorial now resides in the new version of Lighthouse3D. The tutorial has been fully revised, adding different, and more logical, examples. As always, bugs will be present and I count on you to help me to get rid of them.

C3DL – A JavaScript Library for WebGL

16/03/2011 by ARF

The Canvas 3D JS Libary (C3DL) is a JavaScript library that will make it easier to write 3D applications using WebGL. It provides a set of math, scene, and 3d object classes that makes WebGL more accessible for developers that want to develop 3D content in browser but do not want to have to deal in depth with the 3D math needed to make it work.

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WebGL Tutorial

15/03/2011 by ARF

The website Learning WebGL has a series of 15 lessons on WebGL starting with the configuration required to run WebGL, and ending with render to texture. This is a fairly complete tutorial, providing almost everything you need from getting started all the way to write complex applications. The tutorial covers the definition of geometry, including … Read more

Bo Hammarberg’s Seamless Textures Gallery

16/03/201115/03/2011 by ARF

Hammarberg has released another set of seamless fabric textures. Hammarberg has a very large collection and its all free, although a donation is welcome.

Folder Visualization

14/03/2011 by ARF

Using cushion squarified treemaps, your hard drive contents are displayed graphically. The visualization is great to understand how your drive’s space is being used. Everytime I use a tool like this I end up deleting or compressing large files that are no longer used.

The History of the Teapot

14/03/2011 by ARF

The Utah Teapot was originally created by Martin Newell, back in 1975. It is based on a real teapot, and it was digitised by hand. It became extremely popular because, at the time, there were very few available models. The teapot is a complex model from a mathematical point of view, with both concave and convex local surfaces, saddle points, various degrees of curvature, and almost as important, it is a highly recognisable object. Newell actually built a full tea set, but the teapot was the most used model.

Geometric Post-process Anti-Aliasing (GPAA)

14/03/2011 by ARF

Recently a number of techniques have been introduced for doing antialiasing as a post-processing step, such as MLAA and just recently SRAA. MLAA attempts to figure out the underlying geometric properties by analyzing the pixel colors in the final image. This can be complemented with depth buffer information such as in Jimenez’s MLAA. SRAA uses … Read more