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OGLE 03.b – UV Mapping
Earlier this week I received an email from Michael Frumin, R&D Technical Director at Eyebeam Openlab and the man responsible for the OGLE geometry capture utility. Turns out he’d managed to map textures onto captured geometry. Unfortunately, the sample he sent was a Maya 6.5 file and I’m on 5.0.1. No joy.
Well, he’s just sent [...]
UGS’s Techno Matrix
From UGS’s Monday press release (Link):
Tecnomatix 7.6 leverages a natural extension of the Teamcenter PLM backbone, enabling tight collaboration across the design/build process where manufacturing and design engineers can create and plan production processes concurrent with product design. Moreover, with Tecnomatix 7.6 manufacturers can virtually create, plan, validate and execute production processes, for workcells, [...]
Cyworld U.S. In Public Beta
I’ve more or less ignored the recent news regarding Cyworld U.S. I suspect that’s because I’m interested in 3D environments – or potential 3D environments. That would explain my interest in Hive7 (reLink) even though it’s currently only a 2D space and not even an isometric.
Fortunately, Mashable has an excellent post discussing Cyworld U.S. (Link). [...]
One Ad-Click Shopping … Almost
Via Wired News (Link):
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt … said. “We now have a solution that we believe enables advertisers to offer a digital product on the Web so that when people click on it, through a credit-card mechanism, it is automatically taken care of.â€
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Matt McMahon, vice president of marketing services for Fathom Online … [...]
Encouraging Design
WorldChanging.com has posted notice (Link) that “the European Space Agency has kicked off a competition, open to students at European universities specializing in aeronautics and/or space technologies, asking them to come up with a design plan for a UAV best suited for exploring the planet Mars.” How cool is that?
A shame it excludes people. Other [...]
Rheingold. Mob.
Howard Rheingold was in Second Life tonight. If you don’t know who he is, you can visit his website (Link) or plug his name in a search engine and get plenty of returns.
The event was well-attended (considering the limitations of the platform, that is). No surprise. Net celebrities always bring a crowd. Plenty of Lindens [...]
Hive7: Interactive NetSpace
Via GigaOM I spent some time exploring Hive7 – a net-based, interactive space (Link). It’s an interesting effort with some intriguing possibilities right out of the gate. From GigaOM’s post (Link):
Robert Scoble made the argument that Second Life is an OS, while others nodded their head in agreement. That might be the case, but increasingly, [...]
Second Life Disturbances
If you saw my earlier post (reLink), then you’ll know I’ve been following the latest issue concerning the virtual world, Second Life: allegations of child pornography. Actually, more than just following it; I’ve been involved in online discussions regarding the sensitive topic being debated. So much so that one of the individuals voicing their concerns, [...]