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AliasWavefront: http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Home/homepage.html As the world's leading innovator of 2D and 3D graphics technology, Alias|Wavefront develops award-winning solutions for the film and video, games, interactive media, automotive and consumer products design, and visualization markets. With more than 600 employees worldwide, Alias|Wavefront is an independent software company wholly owned by SGI with head-quarters in Toronto, Canada and technical centers in Seattle and Santa Barbara.
Tools: Maya is the world's most powerful 3D animation and visual effects software. . . . StudioTools is a powerful suite of award winning 2D/3D software, used for design and styling in the automotive, marine, aircraft, sporting equipment, electronic enclosure, children's toy and fashion accessory markets. . . .
Alias Wavefront Previews Maya Paint Effects: http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/alias_wavefront_previews_maya_pa.htm Revolutionary New Paint Technology Simplifies the Creation of Realistic Special Effects and Natural Detail in Maya’s 3D Environments. LAS VEGAS - Alias|Wavefront, an SGI (NYSE:SGI) company, announced Maya Paint Effects, a groundbreaking new brush-based software technology that will be included with a future version of Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited. When integrated fully into the Maya 3D user environment, Paint Effects is a unique artist’s tool for the instantaneous creation of organic elements such as plants, hair, lightning and fire. It provides complete interaction with the lighting, shadows, depth values and animation within Maya scenes and boasts a myriad of preset brushes to create countless forms of real and surreal nature.
Introduction to Computers: http://cap.unb.ca/capsk/English/Resources/4-2.html Good explanations of several topics, including: What kinds of images can be used on a web page? (gif vs jpg) How do I transfer my web page files to the Internet? How do digital cameras work? . . .
Clifford Pickover, at Pickover.com
One of the coolest personal
sites on the Web belongs to the noted physicist Clifford
Pickover. He's an interesting and intelligent guy, to
say the least, and he has an opinion on just about everything
under the sun. What's more, he wants to hear your views, too. His
site lets you contribute your own ideas and opinions about his
thought-provoking excursions into science, ethics, philosophy,
behavior, and, well, as I said, just about everything under the
Sun! Dr.
Pickover has written numerous mind-expanding books (which you can
buy from his site), and he continues some of the provocative and
engrossing lines of thought on his Website -- art, science, God,
consciousness, the universe, extraterrestrial life, quantum
physics, mathematics, puzzles, -- something for everyone. Cliff
Pickover has one of the better minds among our six billion
relatives. I for one am glad he's chosen to share it with the Web
world.
Read the views of Cliff Pickover. http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/home.htm
Clifford Pickover home page.
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