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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Adobe is shutting down service for users in Venezuela in order to comply with a U.S. executive order issued in August that prohibits trade with the country. The company sent out an email to customers … Continue reading Adobe Is Deactivating All Venezuelan Accounts To Comply With US Sanctions
Join us on Wednesday, October 9 at noon Pacific for the Designing Sci-Fi Hack Chat with Seth Molson!
We all know the feeling of watching a movie set in a galaxy far, far away and seeing something that makes us say, “That’s not realistic at all!” The irony of watching
dryriver writes: For the benefit of those who are not much into 3D technologies, as far back as the year 2000 and even earlier, there was excitement about “Web3D” — interactive 3D content embedded in HTML webpages, using technologies like VRML and Sho… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Why Doesn’t the Internet In 2019 Use More Interactive 3D?
“JPEG XL looks very promising as a next gen replacement for JPEG, PNG and GIF,” writes icknay (Slashdot reader #96,963):
JPEG was incredibly successful by solving a real problem with a free and open format. Other formats have tried to replace it, nota… Continue reading Can JPEG XL Become the Next Free and Open Image Format?
Creating a video signal from a computer, a job that once required significant extra hardware, is now a done deal with a typical modern microcontroller. We’ve shown you more NTSC, PAL, and VGA projects than you can shake a stick at over the years. Creating an HDMI video signal however …read more
Long-time Slashdot reader dnix writes:
Apparently having a lot of people playing Fortnite is good for the open source community too. Epic Games’ MegaGrants program just awarded the Blender Foundation with $1.2 million over the next three years…to fur… Continue reading ‘Fortnite’ Creator Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation With $1.2 Million
dryriver writes: If you had asked someone doing 3D graphics seriously back in 2000 what 3D technology will look like two decades away in 2019, they might have said: “Most internet websites will have realtime 3D content embedded or will be completely in… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Why Is 3D Technology Stagnating So Badly?
MojoKid writes: What do you think graphics cards will look like in the next decade and a half? Intel wanted to know that as well, so it commissioned designer Cristiano Siquiera to give us a taste of what graphics cards might look like in the year 2035…. Continue reading Intel Graphics Division Shares Wild Futuristic GPU Concept Cards
Jason Koebler shares Vice’s analysis of demoparties — “gatherings where programmers showcase artistic audiovisual works, known as demos, after a day- or days-long coding marathon that is part bacchanal and part competition” — starting with a visit to… Continue reading Who Killed America’s Demo Scene?
dryriver writes: A lot of people seem to believe that computers somehow need polygons, NURBS surfaces, voxels or point clouds “to be able to define and render 3D models to the screen at all.” This isn’t really true. All a computer needs to light, shade… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Why Are 3D Games, VR/AR Still Rendered Using Polygons In 2019?