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Blender Foundation awarded $1.2 million Epic MegaGrant

Epic Games announced its MegaGrants program at GDC 2019. The company established a $100 million fund to support game developers, enterprise professionals, media and entertainment creators, students, educators, and tool developers who are “doing amazing ...

Famous Graphics Chips: Nvidia’s RIVA 128

It wasn’t an April fool’s joke in 1997 when Nvidia released the RIVA 128 on April 1, based on the NV3 media accelerator. However, it was almost the company’s last gasp. The story begins in ...

A few things we’re looking forward to at Siggraph

Siggraph combines an Academic Conference, with Science Fair experiments, trade show, art fair, and animation festival. It’s a select bunch, people who love computer graphics and in the past decade, the show has been dominated ...

Chaos Czech releases Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D and 3ds Max

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 ...

Valve’s updated web page

  In writing fiction, one is advised to show, don’t tell. Valve has taken that advice and created a web page that will give you a preview of dozens of games. But that’s only one ...

Virtual cameras meld digital effects and live action

What’s more fundamental to the act of making a movie than the camera? It’s the camera that defines a movie and separates it from a play and as camera technology has changed over the years, ...

Think Silicon secures investment round

Think Silicon based in Patras, Greece, was founded by George Sidiropoulos and Iakovos Stamoulis in 2007 with the vision to supply configurable IP semiconductor modules for complex SoCs. The company went on to develop IP ...

Do you need a workstation?

There was a time when the definition of a workstation was crystal clear and so was the decision about having one. If you needed a workstation, you knew who you were and you knew how ...

Deep faking and getting real

Deep fakes have got the world creeped out. Photo manipulation techniques joined with AI are enabling people to create very convincing, very fake images and videos. The authenticity of audio is also up for grabs, ...

Game engines power content creation

There was a time when game engines were built specifically for certain games and many companies believed the quality of their game engines defined the quality of their technologies. As the game industry has matured ...

zSpace lets you see what you’re studying

  At CES this year, zSpace introduced their new 15-inch 3D laptop. It is a passive 3D display system, but those few words don’t really do it justice.  The laptop employs zSpace’s patented 3D screen ...

Stalking through Chernobyl

A cloud of radioactive material settled over Ukraine and Belarus after a critical failure blew apart a Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station reactor in 1986. The resulting death toll had exceeded 4,000. Twenty years later, we ...