Luxology modo 202

Luxology might be a newcomer to the 3D Modelling scene, but while the company was founded in 2004, most of its executives and a large number of engineers have a long history in the 3D industry, being the team the originally co-founded and wrote NewTek and its product Lightwave 3D. Their first 3D modelling product […]

Fair Use and EULAs

Interesting article on Ars about a recent decision of a U.S. Court on the subject.

WWDC'06: OSX Dtraced

XCode 3.0 seems nice! Graphical front-end to Dtrace included; Sun's dtrace is lauded as one of the most impressive dev/admin tools to appear in the last few years and Apple's adoption and integration into XCode is definitely well received. In related news, Apple published the intel kernel sources and introduced MacOSForge.org, a site for Mac OS X open source projects. Well done Apple!

Apple juice.

Apple CEO’s WWDC keynote was probably one of the least impressive for years, but there are one or two things that are of some importance: It’s payback time Judging from the attractive pricing of the Mac Pro (leaving aside the mediocre standard configuration Apple has presented the world with; Geforce 7300GT is surely not worthy […]

The Archimedes Palimpsest

Back in March I mentioned Google Techtalks (now split into multiple series, engEDU, authors@google etc.). Well, back then I watched a video about how a team was using technology to restore an Archimedes Palimsest, an old parchment with some of the great mathematician’s writings that had been overwritten several times throughout the previous two millenia. […]