ColoRotate: Pick A Color In 3D (Read more...)

ColoRotate is a 3D color picker. In real world, colors are influenced by shading, and are not flat. This is why this application is an advantage for us.

ColoRotate has an online version and a Photoshop CS4 plugin (just $39) available at http://tour.colorotate.org/. Both versions integrate: you can share color palettes between computers and share with others.

In the same site you can read extended information about ColoRotate's features. For those curious, ColoRotate has also an interesting page that tells about how we perceive color in a 3-dimensional world.

http://www.colorotate.org

 

Ace Of The Skies: Get Up To 25% Off (Read more...)

I have finished my project for Renderosity called Ace Of The Skies. This is a 3D model for Poser and DAZ Studio.

Soon I will tell you more in detail about the process of building and testing, and some story behind this. For now, here are some renders of the product.

It includes a long list of features, that go from MAT poses to pilot poses for the most common figures. You can use it to build 3D rendered scenes of aviation.

You can see a complete list of features in the product page:

Ace Of The Skies

Now it's 15% Off for 1 week.

In addition, you can use the coupon code 20100205B10P10 to your order at the time of checkout for instant savings, if you purchase before February 08, 2010 at 11:59pm (CST) Renderosity system time. For a limited time, receive 10% off of your purchase of $10.00 or more.

If you add these 2 offers, you get 25% Off.

70% Off On Female Characters For Poser And DAZ Studio (Read more...)

Freja and Adiene are putting on a sale for all their Renderosity store and offer up to 70% off for a limited time!

These vendors offer mainly female characters for poser models, meaning textures and morphs to make characters like Victoria 4 for Poser or DAZ Studio look better.

This offer will last only until February 5th.

Sale ends at 6AM Renderosity System Time (CST) on February 5th

Visit Freja and Adiene stores on Renderosity

An example:

Freja's Madison for V4 Now at $ 3.88

Virtual London Grows! (Read more...)

Metaversum, developer of Twinity, the virtual world based on real people and real cities, is adding new areas to the beta of Virtual London on February 3^rd. To mark this occasion, members will be greeted with lots of events and new launches.

Berlin, 2 February 2010 – After successfully launching various parts of Central London, the mirror world Twinity is opening up more areas in Virtual London.

These areas will include famous buildings and monuments, from the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace to the Millennium Bridge, and the Trocadero. With this, Virtual London, will have grown to the east and south of its present spread, while also marking a foray across the virtual Thames.

From the 3^rd of February onwards, Twinity is celebrating this launch by showcasing the creative expression of its global community. From art exhibitions to live music gigs, all Twinizens will have a chance to display their work to the entire community, receive comments, or link to other websites.

If you want to join the fun and share your talent: Display pictures, put up photographs, host an event, broadcast your film, share your poetry, drop us a line at London@twinity.com, and we’ll help you on the road to community stardom.

For those who want to sit back and watch the community at play, Twinity London will be hosting a variety of tours and contests in and around these newly launched parts. For more information on these events have a quick look here: www.twinity.com/en/events.

Twinity celebrates this launch with a special offer: 5 residents and entrepreneurs based in and around the areas mentioned above can win their virtual apartment, office or store at the same address in Virtual London! These spaces will be given away, for free for the next one year, just send your name and real address to London@twinity.com and we’ll handle the rest!

This isn’t the end of the expansion! Over the next few months, Twinity will continue to add more buildings, spaces, features and options to Virtual London. Join the Virtual London fan page on Facebook for the latest updates: http://www.facebook.com/virtual.london.

The virtual world Twinity is currently in public beta. Register for free membership at www.twinity.com and start exploring the world today.

10 Augmented Reality Videos (Read more...)

In the last times there's an increased interest in Augmented Reality, and it's not strange because in a near future we will begin to see it integrated in our lives.

Here's a selection of videos that show some kind of augmented reality I found during last year. Take some time watching them, and visit their YouTube pages to see more related videos to find more stunning material.

Interaction with an Augmented Reality Avatar

 
Deep Green & Augmented Reality Pool

 

Kweekies - mobile augmented reality game

 

James Cameron's Avatar Toys Augmented Reality Demo

Knex HQ

 

Markerless Augmented Reality

 

Experience The Enterprise - Star Trek Augmented Reality

 

earthmine's Wild Style City

 

WE ARE AUTOBOTS - Transformers Augmented Reality

 

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop