Siggraph
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SIGGRAPH comes to Asia
News Interactive digital media conference and exhibition, the Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques show will be held in Singapore--the first Asian venue.
Tags: Digital media, Asia, Conference, Lucasfilm, digital media industry, Singapore, SIGGRAPH, North America, job, industry
India's animation sector moves up value chain
News The industry in India is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 27 percent, from around US$460 million in 2008 to US$1.16 billion by 2012.
Tags: Graphics, Video, Multimedia, TV, India, Animation, 3D, animation industry, Roadside Romeo, Ashok Rajgopal
Intel, Macromedia see 3D in Web's future
News Chip giant and software dabbler Intel is hoping it can piggyback on the popularity of Macromedia's Flash animation player to succeed with 3D on the Web, an area where legions have failed or stalled.
Sony open sources digital effects software
News Sony Pictures Imageworks releases five digital image-manipulation software tools under open source licenses, and says more may follow.
Tags: Business applications, Digital media, Open source, Sony Pictures, Animation, Tool, computer, animation company, Digital media, computer graphics
Higher bit-depths from ATI
News One of the fruits of the AMD-ATI merger, the graphics chip-maker's new FirePro brand signifies a fresh start for its professional line-up.
Tags: Digital media, Business applications, Operating systems, Graphics, Singapore, Card, digital content, Radeon, 3D, FirePro
Intel taking 2GHz Xeon to Tinseltown
News Intel will go Hollywood next week to demonstrate its fastest Xeon processor yet.
Intel taking 2GHz Xeon to Tinseltown
News The chipmaker will show off a 2GHz version of its high-end Xeon chip at the Siggraph computer graphics trade show starting Tuesday in Los Angeles, Intel executives confirm.
Microsoft shows off 3D video-editing tool
News A research project called Unwrap Mosaic paves the way for adding features such as facial hair to the subject of a video that has already been filmed.
Tags: Software, Video, Personal applications, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Tool, 3D, Environment, trade show, photograph
Researchers take Google approach to understanding photos
News Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed techniques that let computers automatically add or replace elements in a digital photo.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Component-based development
Intel reveals Larrabee's cores and effects
News Intel's new Larrabee architecture is a graphic illustration of many-core design.
Tags: Graphics, Processors, Core, Intel Corp., Chip, performance, software, processor, high-performance computing, OpenGL
Siggraph: Taking on fair use, privacy and DRM
News Sony, the Software Freedom Law Center and others weigh in on digital rights management.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, Privacy, Antitrust, Business ethics
