Google Crisis Response – Join Google
and give a hand (and some money too) to Japanese Red Cross.
This is a good time to learn a little bit more about tsunamis. Try the National Geographic page on Tsunamis, or the Wikipedia.
Mar 132011
Mar 132011
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Drawing a large area of a city from memory after a 45 minute helicopter ride seems an impossible task. Yet Stephen Wiltshire, aka the Living Camera, did it in Rome with incredible detail. This is not his first 3 meter wide panorama. Starting with Tokyo in 2005, he has drawn Rome, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Madrid, Dubai, Jerusalem, London and New York on giant canvasses. His most recent trips took him to Sydney and Shanghai in 2010.
Mar 122011
Drawing Inspiration from Wesley Louis on Vimeo.
‘A wino, resigned and stuck in his ways, finds mysterious sketches on the park bench that he visits every day. As these pictures stir his thoughts, he begins to notice the world around him and to reflect upon his own place within it. He meets a young boy whose innocent encouragement helps to release him from his self destructive social withdrawal and unlocks a part of his character that had been long forgotten.’
Mar 112011
Khronos Developer Presentations Library. The library has been updated with the presentations from GDC 2011, from the 28th of February to the 4th of March, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA.
The presentations cover OpenGL, OpenCL, WebGL, amongst other topics.
Mar 112011
Wow! Excellent graphics, hypnotising theme… Could look at it for hours… One of the best looking demos of 3D on the web I’ve ever seen.
Mar 112011
OpenCL Studio is a tool that integrates OpenCL and OpenGL in a single development environment. There is a free version that is limited only in the number of items in your project tree.
The app has a few demo projects, and there are video tutorials on the site.
Mar 112011
FastKat GL 0.2 alpha version. Another demo using WebGL.
You travel in an asteroid field and must avoid collisions. It’s just a demo, as pointed out on the site, but nicely done. Simple but effective.
Mar 102011
Man Pages for GLSL are finally available 🙂
Its a nice touch to include version support in each function.
Mar 102011
Fractal Lab, Interactive WebGL Fractal Explorer, is a very cool 3D web application. It can draw several types of fractals, both 3D and 2D, and it allows you to save the images produced.
The fractals are rendered using WebGL and GLSL with real time interactivity (at least for the simpler ones). The source code for the shaders is provided.
The number of iterations is configurable but beware the too many may hang up the whole system.
Mar 092011
Mason Woo, OpenGL Architectural Review Board, Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, Dave Shreiner
Aka the Red Book. This book is the bible of OpenGL. Simply put, a must have! Early version is available online.
More information about this title at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk