Color test and naming

Color test and naming

chir.ag

Name that Color

Click & drag over the Color Wheel to make a color

Color Name & Hue 

Color Arrangement Test

Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator

LINKS

chir.ag

Colblindor

John Dyer

Digital Flock of 4000

Digital Flock of 4000

InstinctTech DogFighter CudaDemo

"The demo shows 4096 bot planes handled solely on a single GPU parallel to game rendering. The bot planes use steering behaviours for flocking, navigation and obstacle avoidance. The planes are fully lit and rendered (with shadows). The demo runs with interactive frame rate on main stream CUDA enabled graphics cards. In comparison the same simulation without utilizing CUDA achieved a similar frame rate on a decent machine with only 512 planes in our tests. The steering computation for 512 planes requires about 260.000 neighbour queries while for 4096 planes this grows to a whopping 16 Million queries. The algorithm can be easily parallelized, explaining the advantage of technologies like CUDA for this kind of problem. Even if there is a potential to optimize the algorithm for CPU the clear benefit for us is a heavily reduced development time." by DarkWaterDev

LINKS

YouTube: DarkWaterDev

SITES

Instinct Technology

darkwater:

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Top 20 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers / Six Revisions

Have a look and please comment about it! sixrevisions.com

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Neighbourhood cosmic textures...WOW!

Neighbourhood cosmic textures...

LINKS

Boston
Martian landscapes


Dilidou
Les paysages fascinants de la planète Mars

HIRISE
High resolution imaging science experiment


View in 3D, with Mars in Google Earth

How to draw recolorable icons /Turbomilk

How to draw recolorable icons

Author: Denis Kortunov
18 June 2009

What is a recolorable icon? It is a picture which is capable of changing its color, hence is the world recolorable. There are several ways of getting there. I will tell you about a simple technique that we used while developing Iconza. In essence it’s a web application that provides for changing colors of icons followed by generating the required files.

For example, we want to draw a recolorable folder. We take our favorite vector graphics editor and draw a folder.

How do we go about making this picture recolorable? The secret is that the picture contains two bitmap files: semitransparent flashes/shadows and a color backing at the bottom. So we have the color backing shine through the semitransparent mask. The mask should look like this:

How do we draw such mask? It is quite easy. You take the colored backing and put flashes and shadows on top....Read this awesome post! Turbomilk

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 ICONZA
Customizable icons for your web site. Totally free.

25+ Experimental Typography Showcases / triwireMAGAZINE

 tripwire MAGAZINE

25+ Experimental Typography Showcases

Model a realistic iPod Nano in Cinema 4D Video tutorial by Grischa Theissen

Model a realistic iPod Nano in Cinema 4D Video tutorial by Grischa Theissen   via blog.grischatheissen.com

Grischa Theissen walks step-by-step through the techniques for modelling, texturing and lighting a realistic iPod Nano.

"In my new tutorial I show you how to model a realistic iPod nano in Cinema 4D. I go over the modeling, some basic texturing and render settings to show you how to create the iPod. I hope I can show you some basic technics to get you into modeling.

"I am really honored to be guest on Motionworks and hope you enjoy the tutorial as much as I enjoyed recording it."Grischa Theissen.

TUTORIAL Cinema 4D: Model an iPod Nano (Part 1)

Motionwork

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Creating a favicon for your Web site / Macworld

Look at this tutorial by Chris McVeight! macworld.com

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Crystal Clear Bubble Icons / Tutorials ETC

Cristal clear bubble icons

Look at this tutorial! tutorials.mysitemyway.com

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Ring Nebula Deep Field / APOD: 2009 November 6

Credit & Copyright: Vicent Peris (DSA / OAUV / PixInsight), Jack Harvey (DSA / SSRO), Steve Mazlin (DSA / SSRO), Jose Luis Lamadrid (DSA / ceFca), Ana Guijarro (CAHA), RECTA, DSA.

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Fine 3D Artwork / Andrea Felix Gebhardt

Pass It On: Here I created data transfer tools, a C++ custom ICE node to read flow information and advect particles and also animated the bubble centerpiece. This started as a personal project with an early beta of ICE and was later adapted for the Psst!PassItOn piece. For the second shot I created the simulation software.

  
SUKIO / Andreas Felix Gebhardt.

"Dear visitor, welcome to Sukio, a place acting as a showcase for my work. My weapon of choice is mainly Softimage XSI, an incredible piece of 3D Software made by Avid Inc. , which I'm using since it's version 1.0. So most of the 3D artwork and technical demos you see on this site are made using it as a base for further exploration."

 Focus: Research & Development, FX Programming, Shader Programming, Technical Direction, Technical Animation, Design.

Skillset: XSI, XSI C++ API, ICE, OpenGL, XSI Scripting API, Mental Ray, Novodex, Gelato, Renderman, Maya, Houdini.

video

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Awesome 3D Game Engine Free!

Awesome 3D Game Engine  Free!
Now you can harness the power of the award_winning Unreal Engine 3 for free!

UDK Unreal

"The world's best game engine...Now at your fingertips."

Whizzle is a casual game in development by Psyonix Studios. The game takes place underwater in a 2d perspective. Players control a character named “Whizzle” who swims around collecting eggs and rescuing his fellow “Fizzles”. This document describes the process we went through to create the world using the UDK from Epic Games.

The Ball is an episodic action puzzle game that has been released in chapters including Pehua, Oztoc, Teotl, and Hueca. Originally developed as a mod for Unreal Tournament 3, The Ball has won multiple honors in the $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest.

UT Demo

A demo version of Epic Games’ Unreal Tournament 3 is included with the Unreal Development Kit download. The demo ships with four levels, three weapons, four vehicles and one robot character for your sampling enjoyment.

LINKS

3dEssentials
"Unreal Development Kit – Experience the Power and Potential of Unreal Engine 3 for Free"

YouTube gamingbits
Unreal Development Kit (UDK) Psyonix Developer Diary from Epic Games

Psyonix share their experience on the Unreal Engine 3 and UDK
.