Using a 3D virtual world is not often the first impulse of building designers and architects, but maybe it should be. Here’s one snapshot of a house that was designed in about four hours, right down to the hanging plants on the loggia. Clicking the image will download a presentation (PDF, about 11.5 MB) with [...]

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After watching the live feeds of today’s Apple iPad announcement, audio/video from Leo Leporte’s Twit, and live blogging by Gizmodo and Engadget (both of which crashed their servers from time to time), I have to have one! As expected, Apple blew away the competition. My KindleDX is now obsolete (not that I was ever really [...]

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Some things have been remade frequently because they are fill a useful niche, and someone thinks they can either do them better, or because they want to see them in a new form, or perhaps they perceive a potential money-maker. This seems to be the case with color wheel applications. A quick Google search turned [...]

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Someone in the SecondLife audience at the Stanford Metaverse U conference, listening to the presentation by Jon Brouchard about Wikitecture said Jon has blogged about this at http://archsl.wordpress.com. One of the points in Brouchard’s talk was something about people always asking if they can import their content from other 3D worlds into SecondLife. He said, [...]

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Before starting on Project Wonderland, I thought I’d boot up WindowsXP (on my Mac’s Parallels virtual machine) to look at iClone2 and see if I can find out what kinds of formats it exports things to. Here’s what I’ve discovered so far. Export Formats bmp 24 bit 32 bit jpg sliding scale 0-100% quality tga [...]

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Welcome to new media on the go. Exactly what that means will be developed as we go (which is part of the self-referential meaning in itself), but for now I want to talk more about the new media aspect than the on the go part. I just received a couple of new products from Reallusion® [...]

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