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Samsung’s 108-Mpixel camera sensor—a telescope in your pocket

Just for a reference point, you should know that the Hubble optical telescope is 11,4777 × 7,965 or 94.4-Mpixels   Last week, Samsung introduced a new image sensor with the highest resolution for mobile phones; ...

Siggraph’s quiet front hides a beehive of activity

Uh, oh there’s no one here!  Walking into Siggraph that first day, full of excitement and expectation, we were horrified to find the halls quiet, the tiny exhibition area dark, and the nearby area for ...

Open Source at Siggraph

Siggraph for us this year was all about open source. Not that it’s new. Lord no, all those danged acronyms have been floating around for ages. Who keeps track of ‘em all? The leading open ...

The software industry opens up

A year ago at Siggraph, the creative community from TV, movie, marketing, game, and VFX studios came together to form the Academy Software Foundation, ASWF, as a resource for open software development in the creative ...

Autodesk introduces Bifrost for Maya

Working in the visual programming interface doesn’t mean working blind, thanks to support for visual previews. (Source: Autodesk)   Autodesk announced Bifrost for Maya as an official feature included in the product on July 31st. ...

Dassault’s financial earnings meet expectations

The summertime is not generally a great time for financial reports, except for, maybe, companies selling flipflops and ice cubes, but Dassault has brought in their second quarter for the fiscal year according to plan. ...

Seems like old times… Rick Bergman returns to AMD

The doors spin round. AMD has announced former Synaptics CEO, and former AMD SVP/GM of the products group, Rick Bergman will return to lead the Computing and Graphics (CG) business segment for AMD. The CG ...

PTC hits rough road

PTC has been very optimistic about its transition to subscription and its concurrent development of new business. Unfortunately for the third quarter of 2019, the company’s executive team had to do a lot of fairly ...

AMD Q2 2019 results

AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q2 2019, revenues and operating income were down year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits.  “I am pleased with our financial performance and ...

Modo demonstrates new features for fashion, AEC, and content creation

The focus for Modo at Siggraph 2019 was cross-platform fluidity and cross-discipline applicability. The three speakers at Modo’s Siggraph user event included designer Thomas Groppi from NEXII, rigging TD Richard Hurrey from Kitestring, and 3D ...

Maxon updates features and licensing for Cinema 4D

Maxon is modernizing on all fronts. At Siggraph 2019, the company outlined new features and tools for Cinema 4D R 21, Maxon’s flagship 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software. Maxon is consolidating all of the ...

Nvidia loves indies

  Nvidia launched the DXR Spotlight contest this spring with Epic and Microsoft and has just announced a trio of winners. The DXR Spotlight contest, an offshoot of the Nvidia Indie Spotlight Program, invited game ...