Where’s the Future of 3D interaction? Posted by Al Dean - July 28, 2008 3Dconnexion has just released details of research they’ve been doing into the return on investment, commercial pay back that can…
NVIDIA launches GPU based ray tracing at Siggraph Posted by Al Dean - August 14, 2008 NVIDIA has announced that it can calculate ray traced imagery on the fly using its GPUs, claiming an industry first.…
Joining the dots Posted by DEVELOP3D - August 25, 2008 Ping Fu is CEO of Geomagic, one of the leading Digital Shape Sampling and Processing (DSSP) companies. Its software enables…
What’s stopping users from exploring new functionality in their product development environment? Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 12, 2008 What is it that is stopping users from exploring new functionality in their workhorse product development environment? Al Dean wonders…
Autodesk completes Softimage: Is the CGI industry sown up? Posted by Al Dean - November 19, 2008 Images courtesy of Virtual-Mechanix – here’s a nice user story about how they use the products here. While there are…
3D design battled out to the death* Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 27, 2008 I might be missing out on the weather, the casinos, the showgirls and something called Autodesk University in Las Vegas…
AU2008: Future Tech and the next Inventor UI? Posted by Al Dean - December 2, 2008 Experts, Like you – AU2008’s strap line – loving the branding scheme. Autodesk are hosting their huge, annual user event…
Autodesk adopts Mac for Alias, Inventor Plastics tools for 2010 Posted by Al Dean - February 18, 2009 As I type this, the world’s media (probably all 12 of them) are sat waiting for Autodesk to unveil its…
Design tools on the Apple Mac Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 12, 2009 It’s been brewing for years, but finally a platform long dormant in the 3D design world is making a break…
Live from LA: Behind the scenes at BMW DesignWorks Posted by Greg Corke - March 26, 2009 I’ve just spent an incredibly interesting few hours with BMW DesignWorks in its headquarters in Los Angeles. Owned by BMW,…