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SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:30:54 -0700
SaaS CRM vendor Entellium is phasing out its browser-based offerings in favor of a smart client version that it says sells faster, better and at one-fifth of the marketing costs of the old version. by Phil Wainewright
Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:45:24 -0700
Hamilton "Hammett" Verissimo, the founder of the open-source Castle Project, is joining Microsoft on August 11 as a program manager on the Microsoft Extensibility Framework MEF team. by Mary Jo Foley
How to make Microsoft Silverlight enterprise fit
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:42:02 -0700
A father and son team think they've found a way to make Microsoft Silverlight  more enterprise friendly. Navot and Gai Peled who run Gizmo, Ltd., an Israeli startup, have enabled their Visual WebGui environment to redirect Siliverlight calls across the network,...
A solar cooled air-conditioning system
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:30:20 -0700
Spanish scientists have developed a new eco-friendly air-conditioning system. The researchers are relying on solar energy for cooling their devices. They claim that their technology does not harm the ozone layer and reduces the use of greenhouse gases. The research team has 'designed and built an absorption chiller capable of...
The fastest way to learn open source
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:00:49 -0700
Tim O'Reilly has taken everything he and his company have learned training people in programming for two decades and condensed it into the format of this series. Even I can learn with it. by Dana Blankenhorn
Eclipse gets its first Russian member
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:37:17 -0700
Eclipse got its first Russian member today with Excelsior LLC of Novosibirsk joining as an add-in provider. by Dana Blankenhorn

 

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Company, Inc. - Develops backgrounds textures and patterns of JPEG images for use with most graphics programs, includes black and white patterns, watercolor, art papers, pastels, and rich textural architectural photographs.

Afterlife.de - Abnormal and normal human textures, also for monsters. Samples online, or order the CD.
Meta Description: [ Human and Monster Textures for 3D Modeling ]

Bit Brush Graphics - True 3D textures for 3D modeling on CD. Textures, surface maps and backgrounds for 3D graphics and computer modeling. Textures include customized bump, specular, glow and transparency maps. Free sample textures are available for download.
Meta Description: [ 3D Textures, surface maps and backgrounds for 3D graphics and computer modeling. ]

Blade's Textures and Tiles - Free and commercial hand-created seamless textures that are perfect for sci-fi, fantasy, photo-realistic artwork.

Brodatz Textures - Assortment of free textures.

clearingpoint.de - Textures from the categories fantasy, artifical and nature.
Meta Description: [ We offer a great collection of free textures. You can use them for example in your 3D program, on your desktop or on your homepage. ]

CUReT Columbia Utrecht Texture Database - Researchers at Columbia University and Utrecht University have collaborated in an extensive investigation of the visual appearance of real-world surfaces. This joint effort has resulted in three databases. Information about the database, samples, BTF (Texture) Measurements, BRDF Measurements, BRDF Parameters, download the database, and documentation.

Forest Gump Textures Library - Library of several hundred freely available textures, arranged by category.

Hyperfocal Design - Developers of high-resolution 3d textures for computer graphics professionals.
Meta Description: [ Hyperfocal Design is a 3D art community and resource based website and developer of textures and HDRIs for computer graphics artists and photographers. ]

404 KTn 3D Models and Textures - Free RWX, 3DS, OBJ models and seamless wood, rock, textile, metal, tile, brick, rust texture downloads. Active Worlds tree sprites (picture objects).

Marlin Studios - Developers of seamless textures on CD.
Meta Description: [ Publisher of seamless and tileable texture map CD-Roms for 2D and 3D computer graphics applications. Collections include general purpose, interiors, rustic exteriors, Sci-Fi, stonework, downtown surfaces and signs, virtual tree and foliage alpha maps, and ornamental textures. Secure, online order... ]

Mutation - High-resolution textures on CD-ROM, to use in various image and video editing, animation and 3D applications like Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Bryce, Poser and 3D MAX.
Meta Description: [ Mutation is set of 1000 royalty-free textures which can be used with various applications under Windows and Macintosh. ]

Photographic Textures - These can be used as 3D model surfaces, backgrounds or to hang on the wall. Texture Kit available online they include cutout objects and transparency maps to create textures easily.

Pixelpoke - Free hi-res 3D textures that include seamless tiles of fabrics, woods, masonry, and object maps. Updated frequently.
Meta Description: [ Drop by Pixelpoke for free art! We've got free clip art, 3D textures, Mac desktop backgrounds, Photoshop tutorials, and more! ]

PlanIT 3D - Free textures of masonry, wood, metal, vegetation, roads, fabric, carpet, floors, and wall deco. Also models, tutorials, sound fx, ergonomics and architectural resources.
Meta Description: [ PlanIT3D free 3d models textures sound fx tutorials and architectural resources ]

PlasmaStormGraphics - Graphic design and resources featuring the Natural elements texture CD. High quality original diffuse/bump texture maps in seven categories. Individual sets also available.
Meta Description: [ plasma storm graphics offers high resolution photo texture images for the 3d graphics and animation industry great for mapping on 3d models to make more realistic looking ]

Real Texture Library - A large library of photo-derived tilable royalty-free textures for realistic simulators and games available for purchase. A few free samples.
Meta Description: [ The main page describing the library of over 1300 high-resolution photorealistic texture patterns, tilable and ready to use in simulators, VR games, artistic renderings, or on the World Wide Web. ]

Realworld Imagery - Photorealistic textures of people, trees and shrubs, building materials, surfaces, vehicles, indoor plants, and others available on CD. Free samples at website.
Meta Description: [ Entourage and Texture maps for 2D & 3D graphics and design visualizaton. People Plants Vehicles Textures for architects, landscape architects, graphics artists, engineers. ]

Renfield Imaging - Gallery of intriguing 3D seamless textures. All images free for download with new images added monthly.

Shebob's Texture Factory - Textures of rust, metals, slime, and wood, files are in .PCX and JPG format.

Space Graphics - High quality Earth and Mars planets maps, wallpapers and resources for 2D and 3D content creator. LightWave and/or Terragen compatible meshes, and terrains.
Meta Description: [ Publisher of e43 and m46 dataset for digital modeling of earth and mars planets from satellite data, Imagery and 3D models of known asteroid, various kind of high resolution imagery targeted for 2D and 3D graphics application. ]

StormVision Textures - High quality royalty free textures arranged in several categories like fabric, marble, metal, organic, stones, brick, and wood.
Meta Description: [ StormVision Textures : offering a broad range of high quality textures, also seamless tileable textures. ]

Subverse Tiling Textures - Texture packages including doors, vents, windows, crates, metal, and industrial. TGA and ZIP files for direct download for use in 3D games and applications.

500 Texture Box - A subscription based digital stock photography library catering to 3d modeling, animation, and game development. Free textures are available.
Meta Description: [ Texture Box, texture maps and backgrounds for 3D modeling, animation, design and game development. ]

Texture Monk - Provides textures and source photographs for use with games design/ development , 2D and 3D models, websites, and graphical work.

Texture Workshop - Terminal Studio - Multifunctional toolbox that allows turning practically any picture into a repeatable tile very quickly and easily. Such tiles are used as backgrounds of web pages, as wallpapers, as textures for 3D objects and for many other purposes. [Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000/XP]
Meta Description: [ Texture Workshop page ]

Texture World - Textures for 3D, multimedia, video and the web. Very large selection available for purchase on online.
Meta Description: [ Texture libraries and backgrounds for 3D, architectural visualization, multimedia, video and web. Stressed, Urban, Aged, and New. Brick textures, metal, stone, rock, desert, skin, hair, fur, feather, cloud backgrounds, paper textures and backgrounds and more! ]

Textures - Large collection of textures for personal non-commercial use only. The textures, are arranged into categories. Also provides tutorials for texture mapping, creating arbitrary dimensional textures and further instructions.

Textures to The Max - Professional Textures libraries and materials, available on CD. Tutorials are about materials and Mapping using any software.
Meta Description: [ 3dsMax Textures libraries ready to use, seamless and from the real world, Materials browser, ... ]

The Foundation 3D Texture Library - A collection of high-quality, seamless textures for commercial use in 3D artwork or level design.

TiledTextures.com - Sales of 2d textures for use in 3d models. Subscription model available that allows access to all textures.
Meta Description: [ Making Great Things Happen to Surfaces! 30 Textures a Week = 120 Textures a Month = 1,500 Textures a Year ]

VB Exteriors Textures - Textures without visible repeats, suitable for large surfaces, several bump maps for different aging of materials. Demo downloads available.
Meta Description: [ VB Exteriors 2D / 3D Plants and Textures ]