Pictomio Uses the GPU to Play With Your Images
Categories: 3D Tags: direct3d 9, geforce, graphics card, image viewer, pictomio, radeon, software
Read more…
S3 Graphics S3FotoPro Quick Review
Categories: 3D, Test Tags: chrome 430 gt, gpgpu, image manipulation, image processing, review, S3 Graphics, S3FotoPro, software
|
|
S3FotoPro is a GPGPU (General Purpose GPU) acccelerated utility for image processing. S3FotoPro requires Windows XP SP2/3 or Vista SP1 and a Chrome-based S3 graphics card. Geeks3D has such a graphics card (a S3 Chrome 430 GT) so let’s play a little bit with this software. |
Zhu3D: An interactive OpenGL Mathematical Function Viewer
Categories: OpenGL, Softwares Tags: 3d rendering, mathematics, opengl, software, visualization, zhu3d
Zhu3D is an interactive OpenGL-based mathematical function viewer. You can visualize functions, parametric systems and isosurfaces. The viewer supports special effects like animation, morphing, transparency, textures, fog and motion blur.
Zhu3D runs under Linux/Unix, Windows XP-Vista and Mac OS X (the graphical user interface – GUI – uses Qt) and supports different CPU’s as well as different API’s like KDE, Gnome or Motiv. Isosurface calculation currently supports up to 16 CPU-threads.
Homepage: sourceforge.net/projects/zhu3d/
Ok that sounds good. So let’s try it:
Ooops… c’mon Zhu3D, you don’t recognize an OpenGL system like mine, this is a joke! Doesn’t matter. Let’s see the next:
Ah it’s better. Many samples are provided and you can changer the rendering mode (wireframe, solid, point). And for developers, full source code is packed into the archive. Cool!
Blender 2.47 Released
Categories: 3D, Blender, Modeling Tags: 3d, blender, content creation suite, modelling, open source, software
Blender 2.47 has been released and is essentially a bugfix release. Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.
You can download Blender here: Get Blender 2.47
[source]
HYDRA Engine – Multi-GPU Technology
Categories: Graphics Cards, Hardware Tags: chip, crossfire, directx, Equalizer, gpu scaling, Hardware, HYDRA engine, Lucid, LucidLogix, Microsoft DirectX, parallel rendering, sli, software
Read more…
