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“Sketch Chair” is an exploration in using computation and rapid manufacturing techniques to allow users to design and build their own products or in this case their own chairs.

The Sketch Chair software allows a novice users to take part in the entire process of designing and building their own chairs. Chairs are designed using a simple 2D sketch-based interface and design validation tools. Thereafter chairs are fabricated from sheet materials cut by a laser cutter, CNC milling machine or papercutters.

Download HERE.

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Side-by-side overview of technology used in 3ds Max Design 2010 and Rhino 3d. Max is modeling tool based on mesh [polygons, triangles] technology, but Rhino works primarily in NURBS [Non-uniform rational basis spline]. Compare them! What do you think? Leave us a response in comment area below.

Original video HERE.

Fun with Clothilde, Spline dynamics, and Mograph 2. Made with C4D R11.5, comped in AE, sound mixed in Vegas.

assorted sounds from Freesound.org

Key-frame animation test was made in Mandelbulber 0.80 by Krzysztof Marczak. Once you see this fractal, you mast fall in love with that… it’s awesome, isn’t it?

Side Effects Software, an industry leader in 3D animation and visual effects software, announces new release of Houdini 11. With a focus on productivity, Houdini 11 meets the needs of artists and studios who are looking for ways to accomplish more and work faster. From the new FLIP fluids solver, which offers amazing speed and control, to automatic fracturing of RBD objects, to a re-architected shader building workflow, artists will be able to work much more effectively with Houdini 11. Houdini 11 is available with Houdini Escape available for as low as $1,995 and Houdini Master available for as low as $6,695.

And here are the new about Houdini 11:

User Interface

• New, bezier-style connectors in the network editors
• New tool palette in the network editor offers a gallery of nodes which can be dragged into the network.
• Seamless integration of particles into dynamics networks and dynamics into geometry networks. This makes it easier to focus simulations on particular networks instead of simulating everything at the same time.
• Enhancements to bundles to strengthen light-linking workflow
• Z-up support

Vertex Normals

• Support for vertex normals in OpenGL

Network Rendering

• Network-distributed IPR
• HQueue for Windows and Mac
• Gold release of Houdini Cloud rendering tools

Volumes

• Support for multi-resolution volumes with merging, feathering and surfacing tools

VEX Volume Procedural

• Volume Quality setting in viewport
• Camera frustum volumes with tapering values.
• Higher quality viewport visualization of volumes

Texturing

• Support for Disney’s “ptex” format

Point clouds

• New point cloud surfacer with adaptive controls (generates a better surface than the existing particle fluid surfacer; 
more applicable to games)
• New point cloud functions

Fluids

• New Fluid Shelf tools – target smoke, source from surface, resize voxel grid
• SPH particle fluid solver up to twice as fast
• Ability to rotate voxel grid to create non axis-aligned fluid container

Fur

• More shelf tools for hair grooming
• Control over guide hair distribution for faster interactivity while grooming
• Combing direction can now be controlled by skin shaders
• No need for rest attribute
• Distributed wire solver output node

Cloth

• Support for cloth pinching and layering
• Direct support for non-stretchy cloth (stretch/shear/bend constraints)
• Ability to simulate 0D cloth particles and to attach 1D cloth strings to 2D cloth surfaces – this provides as unified cloth solver for particles, wires and cloth surfaces.
• Distributed cloth solver output node

Crowd Control

• New CHOPS (foreach, iksolver, objectchain, transformchain, vector ) – for crowds and more
• New python module that lets developers easily embed C++ code into python code

A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it. [source: IMDB.] Starring: Johny Depp’s voice.  Rango it set to hit theaters on March 18th 2011. Interesting about whole thing is the way of capturing the movie. The captured and translated every every aspect of Johny’s performance and they in according to these data they generated 3D movements of character. Interesting, don’t you think? Enjoy

Absolutely first official full release of fur generator for Rhinoceros! Check all options FurGen brings into Rhino. With FurGen you can create effects like fur, grass, hair, rugs, towels, and much more very easily and use it with any render engine available for Rhinoceros. Download HERE.

Life is transparent, warm and swirls randomly like a soft light. And it constantly changes…
Life illuminates itself and then it begins to illuminates a new life.
A sprouted mass of innumerable lights become a flow before long, and then become the part of the life-throb of ages.
That ties life, this moment now.

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Director : Daihei Shibata
Piano : Naomi Yaguchi
Music : Debbusy “clair de lune”

Have a look at this nice architectural visualization… can you feel the morning? Very nice visualization from Archangel Visual. What do you think? Let us know, use comment area below.

Are you attending this year’s Siggraph in Los Angeles? So don’t forget:

SIGGRAPH Reception
Wednesday 28th July, 8-10pm at the Westin Bonaventure Ballroom

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And in case you don’t know how much it costs, here you are:

Registration Fees: [All US$]

Full: You get it all for $1220
Members: $1,170; Student Members: $495.
Full One Day: $475 buys it all for one day.

Members: $425; Student Members: $225

Basic Conference: $175; Members: $150

Basic One Day: $45