Tag: 3D

Paper Critters is an online Flash application/gallery that lets you create printable cartoonish "people." The critters are all the same shape -- a big headed, blocky type of "person." However, what you can print on this shape is only limited by your imagination. The site provides a comprehensive editor with lots of "stamps" (like the eyes in the image above) and also allows for freehand drawing, ...

AutoDesk has been working on their free online 3D home design tool for quite some time. Last year, Project Dragonfly debuted and I was impressed with the early effort. Now the easy-to-use web app has been relabeled AutoDesk Homestyler, and it's better than ever. What's new in Homestyler? The biggest change is that you can now do landscape design as well -- something I was hoping they would add ...

One day in the not-so-distant future, we'll all be playing plug-in free games thanks to technologies like HTML5 and WebGL. It all sounds good, but what about a demo? Ok, says Google. How about a little Quake 2 in your browser? They started off with Bytonic Software's Jake2, a Java port of the open source Quake engine. From there, they re-compiled the engine using the Google Web Toolkit ...

For most people, it doesn't mean anything. But for people writing the software that lets the rest of us see imaginary worlds, SIGGRAPH is an acronym for the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques. SIGGRAPH is dedicated to the creation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. The group specializes ...

There's a chance you might already have seen this 'sneak peek' video, in which case forgive me. For those of you that haven't seen it, read on and take the jump to view it. This is actually old news, but I only just stumbled across it a couple of days ago. You see, news of Adobe's next Creative Suite is so hard to come by that this is still the latest Photoshop development! In fact, since ...

I'm not sure I'd ever go for the kind of 3D desktop BumpTop implements, but I don't mind seeing a little imaginary depth rendered on my 2D Windows desktop. Enter T3Desk, a Window manager which does exactly that. It's a bit of an alt-tab replacement and reminiscent of the Window arranging wizardry provided by Compiz. One of my favorite features of T3Desk is that all applications you minimize ...

Google Chrome and other WebKit-based browsers aren't the only ones getting improved 3D graphics handling capabilities. As of September 18th, Firefox trunk builds include support for WebGL. Developer Vladimir Vukićević refers to the project as "essentially a way of accessing OpenGL from within the browser, through the HTML5 canvas tag." Together with the recent leaps in Javascript performance, ...

One of the most-anticipated features HTML5 promises for the web is the canvas tag, which allows for dynamic rendering of 2D images. If you can use HTML to draw a 2D image, can native 3D graphics be far behind? The WebGL project is making that a reality by combining the canvas element, a bit of JavaScript, and the OpenGL 3D drawing engine. OpenGL has been around for years, and you might know ...

Stereogram Tetris needs a disclaimer: not everyone's going to be able to play this game, and those who can might get a headache from it. Remember those magic eye posters, where a secret image was revealed if you could unfocus your eyes the right way? This is Tetris inside one of those. If you can see the hidden 3D images, you can't even see where your pieces are. I'm not sure it's healthy to ...

Not that we were huge fans of Lively to begin with, but I'm sure someone out there loved it. Right? No? Perhaps that explains Google's announcement that, "despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we've decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year." So grab those screenies before 2009 and your avatars and rooms go dead. ...

Photosynth, the much-anticipated three-dimensional photo experience from Microsoft Live Labs, has finally launched. "Synths," as they're called, are series of photos stitched together by a fancy algorithm that compares them to one another to create an immersive 360-degree viewing experience. You can start exploring Photosynth on most Windows PCs (and some Macs running virtual machines) now. ...

We can't count the number of times we wished our Windows desktop was as messy as a regular desk. You know, because we've never really wished for that. But that's exactly what Real Desktop lets you do. Oh yeah, it also turns your desktop into a 3D workspace. While the 3D desktop is certainly pretty, we're not sure it's particularly useful. You can move icons around the screen with a left ...

This summer we got our first look at EveryScape, a new startup that makes Google Street View look like child's play. But now that the company has launched a public beta, we have to say, we're not convinced Google has anything to worry about. Yet. EveryScape certainly looks beautiful. 3D panoramas of real-life street views are stitched together from special photos taken atop EveryScape ...

Microsoft has partnered with Dassault Systems to launch a 3D building application for Virtual Earth. In other words, the new application called Virtual Earth 3DVIA is a direct competitor to Google's 3D Warehouse for Google Earth. The application lets you create 3D structures that can be placed on Virtual Earth maps or shared with other users. Virtual Earth 3DVIA is free to use, which makes sense, ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/DownloadSquad_talks_with_3D_Mailbox_creator'; When Robert Savage, creator of the recently released email client 3D Mailbox, commented on our post about his new product, we invited him to participate in an email interview with us. Here's what he had to say: DS: What gave you the idea to create 3D Mailbox? Ideas just come. Hard to dissect. William ...