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Holograms on handsets by 2010
News The global 3D screen market is forecast by industry to grow to 8.1 million units by 2010. Holographic mobile handsets capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images have been developed by an Indian tech company. [19 Jun 2008]
Satyam spices up silver screen with latest effects
News The glamour of Hollywood and the Indian outsourcing industry will collide on the big screen this year. Outsourcer Satyam will bring CGI effects to the silver screen when First Fear hits the cinemas around June this year. [29 Apr 2008]
Diamond Systems Upgrades to 3D to Maintain Its Reputation for Leadership
White Paper The company upgraded from 2D CAD to Solid Edge Model virtual assemblies on-screen as well as re-used Solid Edge models in technical documentation, shop floor instructions and customer presentations. Diamond Systems, based in Farmington Hills... [14 Jan 2008]
3D CAD Allows 50 Percent Time Savings Through Faster Development of Watch Movements
White Paper It doesn't just simply happen that the watch developer simply sits down in front of the screen and immediately creates a virtual 3D model from his initial rough ideas. NOMOS watches are mechanical watches offering an extremely high degree of accuracy. [14 Jan 2008]
From High-End Bicycles to Complex Machinery, Solid Edge Supports the Creative Vision
White Paper In the machine design arena, Bardou combines solid models of individual components into digital assemblies, then views them on-screen to find interferences. Hugo Bardou wanted to support customers' demands for fast development of complex machinery... [14 Jan 2008]
Mobile check-in coming in to land
News Passengers will then be required to present their phones, with the barcodes read from the screen using handheld scanners. Paper boarding cards could soon be a thing of the past: checking in with mobile phones has received the official thumbs-up... [15 Oct 2007]
Technical Brief: 3D Graphics Demystified
White Paper But most of the marketing and advertisements never really describe what 3D graphics are or why 3D graphics are useful.3D graphics in general are used to create realistic looking environments that are visible through the 2D screen of a computer... [18 Jul 2007]
Practical Methods for Geometric and Photometric Correction of Tiled Projector Displays on Curved Surfaces
White Paper Calibration is performed automatically with imagery from a single uncalibrated camera, without requiring knowledge of the 3D screen shape. Composition of 2D-mesh-based coordinate mappings, from screen-to-camera and from camera-to-projectors, allows... [02 Feb 2007]
Juggling JOGL
White Paper The paper starts with the handling of coordinate spaces and how they're scaled from the OpenGL world to the screen. This paper introduces the concepts in JOGL, the Java bindings to OpenGL that are applicable to 2D gaming. [01 Feb 2007]
Introduction to Avalon (Windows Presentation Foundation)
White Paper AVALON is an engine that paints pixels on the screen. This paper describes some important features related to this new technology that will change the way of thinking about graphics. It's a tool that is used to generate graphics, animations, shapes... [28 Nov 2006]
Photos of the month - October 06
Photo If the plane gets too close to the ground or other obstacles, or the system picks up any other imminent disasters, the screen goes red. The screen to the left of the shot shows the new safety system with the existing 2D system alongside it to the... [31 Oct 2006]
Photos: A safer way to navigate the skies
Photo The black screen on the right shows the current system pilots use to fly in low visibility conditions, called the Remote Access Aviation System (Raas). The system also provides on screen a host of other information including the aircraft's speed... [05 Oct 2006]
Creating 2D Action Games With the Game API
White Paper The new GameCanvas class makes it possible to paint a screen and respond to input in the body of a game loop, instead of relying on the system's paint and input threads. MIDP 2.0 includes a Game API that simplifies writing 2D games. [22 Nov 2004]
S3TL White Paper
White Paper The second functional unit is a 'rasterization engine' which performs the task of drawing the (now-2D) world onto the screen. The most significant upgrade in consumer 3D capabilities since 1996, the introduction of hardware transform and lighting... [24 Feb 2004]
Those were the days: The Acorn Electron
Comment At least one screen - in Drummer Street Bus Station, Cambridge - still does, though we've yet to check that out. Yet again a journey down memory lane has produced a torrent of reader feedback, this week on the subject of the Acorn Electron... [25 Jan 2002]
