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Redsdk 3.1 crunches the Apple
Sep 12, 2012
Redsdk is a 2D/3D graphics toolkit which covers all the rendering features for real-time visualization and photo-realistic rendering. In this new version, Redsdk offers many new feature as well as the support of MacOS X.
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Remograph Releases Remo 3D v2.3
Sep 07, 2012
Remograph, providers of products and services for the computer graphics, visual simulation and 3D modeling markets, announced the release of Remo 3D v2.3. Remo 3D is an effective OpenGL-based tool for creating and modifying 3D models intended for realtime visualization. The primary file format is OpenFlight. Remo 3D is currently available for Microsoft Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 and Linux. This new version 2.3 of Remo 3D brings support for importing of ESRI Shape attributes, some new script functions and other various fixes. The full list of new features and improvements can be found in the release notes on our website.
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ogldev: ‘Silhouette Detection’ tutorial published
Sep 07, 2012
The 39th installment in a series of tutorials dedicated to promoting modern OpenGL development on Linux, with a focus on version 3.x and beyond. This tutorial demonstrates how to dynamically detect the silhouette of a 3D object which is created when light fall upon it.
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Equalizer 1.4 released
Sep 07, 2012
Equalizer is the standard framework to create and deploy parallel, scalable OpenGL 3D applications. Equalizer 1.4 is a feature release extending the 1.0 API, introducing major new features, most notably asynchronous readbacks, region of interest and thread affinity for increased performance during scalable rendering. It culminates over seven years of development and decades of experience into a feature-rich, high-performance and mature parallel rendering framework and related high-performance C++ libraries.
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NVIDIA Quadro K5000 GPU comes to Mac Pro
Sep 07, 2012
NVIDIA announced today that its new Quadro K5000 GPU will be available on Apple Mac Pro. Based on Nvidia’s internal tests, the Kepler architecture enables the Quadro K5000 GPU for Mac to run key content-creation applications up to twice as fast at lower power than the Fermi-based Quadro 4000 for Mac, while the new chips also provide support for OpenGL and OpenCL.
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Bringing Regal OpenGL to Native Client
Sep 05, 2012
This #AltDevBlogADay article discusses using Regal with Google’s Native Client to bring desktop OpenGL applications to NaCL more quickly and easily.
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Drishti-2.1.0 released
Sep 04, 2012
An update for Drishti (version 2.1.0) is now available for download at the google code site. This volume exploration and presentation tool runs on GPUs having OpenGL 2.0 or higher capability. Drishti-2.1.0 includes bug fixes and many newer additions such as morphological/mask buffer operations, carving and painting on volumes, coloured mesh generation based on transfer function opacity, MetaImage import/export and much more. Drishti allows scientists to visualize, explore and present volumetric datasets. Drishti helpvideos are now available on youtube. More help videos will be added in coming days.
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OGLplus 0.19.0 released
Sep 04, 2012
OGLplus is an open-source header-only library which implements a thin object-oriented facade over the OpenGL (version 3 and higher) C-language API. It provides wrappers which automate resource management and make the use of OpenGL in C++ safer and easier. This version brings experimental support for several GL 4.3. features (compute shader dispatching, debug output, program interface), adds two new examples, has improved build system, fixes several bugs and more.
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GLUS is now beta and documentation available
Aug 31, 2012
GLUS is a C helper library for OpenGL 3 and 4. After more than two years of development, the library is now in beta. The source code is now documented as well. The library is already used by a few hobbyists, universities and for the OpenGL examples on the web site.
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Nopper.tv hosts now an OpenGL 4.3 example
Aug 31, 2012
The nopper.tv web site hosts now 21 OpenGL 3 and 4 examples. The latest addition is a simple compute shader example, which uses OpenGL 4.3. All the examples run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (driver needs to support the required OpenGL version).
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Cross-platform PixelLight 3D engine 1.0.0 released
Aug 27, 2012
Version 1.0.0 of the free open-source, cross-platform 3D application framework PixelLight has been released. We’re using OpenGL as well as GLSL within our main-renderer and OpenGL ES 2.0 for Android. The primary focus of this release was on quality assurance. On the graphics side, tesselation as well as instancing support was added to the rendering system. Further we added the capability of rendering volume data. We received a lot of feedback from the community about the Linux SDK. As a result we added helper shell scripts so applications can be started without having to modify the system environment.
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OpenGL 4 reference pages now online
Aug 20, 2012
The OpenGL 4 reference pages are now available online in the OpenGL SDK website.
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Talk with Demo of NVIDIA’s OpenGL 4.3 Compute Shaders
Aug 20, 2012
Watch as Mark Kilgard at SIGGRAPH 2012 explains what’s new with NVIDIA’s OpenGL 4.3 driver support for GeForce and Quadro GPUs. The talk includes demos of OpenGL 4.3’s new compute shader functionality for particle systems and image processing. Or review the slides.
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OpenGL SIGGRAPH slide presentations now online
Aug 13, 2012
The Khronos Group has posted most of the slide presentations from the SIGGRAPH BOFs online. Slide sets include OpenGL, COLLADA, OpenCL, OpenGL ES and WebGL. Developers will be particularly interested in these slides which include overviews of OpenGL 4.3, OpenGL ES 3.0 and CLU extension. There is also a slide deck from Kurt Akeley.
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SilverLining 3D Cloud and Sky SDK Launches Android / OpenGL ES Support
Aug 13, 2012
Sundog Software brings real-time simulation of the sky, 3D clouds, and weather effects to Android devices with the release of SilverLining for Android. Included are integration samples for Java, C++, and OpenSceneGraph-based Android applications - all built with OpenGL ES 2.0 or above. A free evaluation SDK and demo are available at Sundog’s website.
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