What Python modules you use while in working? 我們都曉得，Python 有個模組倉庫 Cheese Shop (or PyPI)，只要善用 Google + PIP + virtualenv，你需要什麼樣的模組，一般都有人替你寫好一版了。 不過這也不是什麼挺稀奇的。 Perl 老早就有 CPAN ; PHP 也有個 PEAR ; Ruby 的是 RubyForge ; R 也有個 CRAN ; 甚至連 Tex/LaTeX 都有個 CTAN ; 喔，對了，Vim 也有個 Vim Scripts … ...
Dan Maas 是一位好朋友，好的工作夥伴，一位 RenderMan 專家，以及一位創業家。 Dan 和我一同在太極影音 的土星之謎 上頭“出力“，我們在“台灣文化“ 、“產業資訊“、“電腦動畫/產業軟體技術“、“程式開發“以及“新技術的嘗試與導入“ 玩得不奕樂乎。 ...
Dan Maas, my best friend and partner. We ever co-work in Digimax on Quantum Quest. He is a RenderMan expert with excellent animation experience and knowledge. Last year, just after he graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business, he was planning his next business. It turns out in this year, 2012, that he succefully co-founded another company, SpinPunch. The following is my casual interview with Dan, about his idea behind, the new company, the ‘Starcraft in million browsers’ and his vision for future gaming. Enjoy it :) ...
The Italian artist Guido Daniele developed one of the most impressive ways to express his art, using human hands and turning them into something else with a touch of paint. When skill meets creativity, we get an unbelievable result. In this case, the result in your hands. Check it out! Paulo Canabarro, abduzeedo.com/… 你一定看過這類的 hand paintings，但是你可能不曉得 Guido Daniele 還更進一步 把它與廣告結合的作品： 最後，來看看出自 The ARt of the Illusion: Deceptions to Challenge the Eye and the Mind 這本書裏頭，幾張最驚人的作品： ...
以下的內容來自 More from SIGGRAPH 2012 . Side Effects (Houdini 開發商) 開放了一個新的 C2C 平台: Orbolt . 讓每個人可以在上頭買賣用 Houdini 製作的 assets, 可以是特效、模型、動畫、… 甚至可以只用免錢版的 Houdini 做的 assets，就可以丟上去買賣。 ...
Dreamworks Animation opensourced OpenVDB , a data structure and toolset dedicated to volumetric data. According to the following statement, it might get supported/integrated into some 3D packages by vendors, including Houdini or some others in Autodesk. Does that become another Alembic? I don’t know. But I can tell there would be some sort of competition between OpenVDB and Field3D . OpenVDB is an open source C++ library comprising a novel hierarchical data structure and a suite of tools for the efficient storage and manipulation of sparse volumetric data discretized on three-dimensional grids. It is developed and maintained by DreamWorks Animation for use in volumetric applications typically encountered in feature film production. ...
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參加 SIGGRAPH 的人裏頭，超過 2/3 的人指出，他們在展場裏頭注意到一些新的公司/單位，一些他們感興趣，甚至考慮在未來有直接的合作關係的公司/單位。 長達三天的展場，進進出出的人非常的多（應該是最多了的吧），平均下來，有參加 SIGGRAPH 的人，約花了接近 5 個小時的時間在展覽區。 ...