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HP's first 13.3-inch Pavilion vs. the competition
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:34:18 -0700
HP is shipping its first laptop with a 13.3-inch widescreen display. The HP Pavilion dv3500t series is already available on HP's site starting at $1,000, and a slightly higher-end configuration, the dv3520nr, is available for pre-order at Best Buy for $1,200. Other sites have reported that this model will be...
A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve?
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:22:06 -0700
It sounds like Microsoft has yet another Professional Developers Conference PDC announcement percolating -- beyond the Windows 7, Oslo, cloud OS (Red Dog/Zurich) and Mesh Platform stuff about which the company already has been dropping hints. by Mary Jo Foley
Google talks efficient data centers
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:18:32 -0700
Google is known as a search titan, but its real business is running data centers. On Wednesday, Google handed out a few key tips as it touted its data center efficiency and sustainability efforts. In a blog post, Google's senior vice president of operations Urs Hölzle outlined...
Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissed
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:17:23 -0700
Apple has hit back against claims made by Mac-clone maker Psystar that the company is operating in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act and will be asking the U.S. District Court judge to dismiss to dismiss the counterclaim. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Microsoft HealthVault offers the nickel tour
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:08:55 -0700
Nolan insists that "third party applications" will be what get HealthVault over the top, and it's in making those available that he hopes the system will prove its value. by Dana Blankenhorn
Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:47:18 -0700
Steve Ballmer was next door in the Queen Elizabeth Hall talking to the TechNet/TechEd people about Office Live, and mentioning that there would be a major announcement at the PDC on the 27th October. Once he finished there, he popped next door and told us a similar thing. ...

 

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ColorFunction Image Generator Page - A program that generates images that can use for 3D textures, desktop or web backgrounds or for any other use, it generates the image by calculating a mathematical expression for the color red, green or blue components of each pixel. Select from a pre-defined set of functions for each color.

Deep UV - Create and modify UV mapping for n-polygonal models within an interactive 2D and 3D UV mapping environment. Support for all n-sided polygons. Integrates with 3ds max and Maya, workflow for XSI and LightWave.

Genetica - Node-based seamless texture editor that comes with over 500 finished texture presets.
Meta Description: [ Genetica is a powerful node-based texture generator for making tiling or seamless textures for games or other 3D work. ]

Gliftic - Create 2D designs that can be used as backgrounds for Web pages, as well as wallpaper and book covers. Also generate random designs, includes zooming and tiling capabilities, and to create thumbnails.

Imagelys Picture Styles - Generate seamless textures, 3D modeling textures or desktop wallpapers. Includes image manipulation tools, filters and masks for transparency effects.
Meta Description: [ Imagelys Picture Styles - Seamless Texture Generator ]

Images Generator - Program has tools, which traditionally are used for drawing and editing images. The feature of the program is innovative functions for creation images including 3D images.
Meta Description: [ Images Generator is innovative paint and image editor in which accent is made on creation of images. The graphic editor allows creating from Web elements to whole professionally executed Web sites. ]

Impact Texture Studio - A tool to create 256x256 textures that can be tiled for 3d modeling, webpages, or other graphics related effects.

Infinity Textures - Texture designer and generator. I-Tex gives the ability just to draw an image on a tiled surface using ClipDraw Technology. Texture samples are available.
Meta Description: [ Texture Maker, the powerful generator and editor for seamless textures ]

Iris - CineGraphics - A quick easy free utility for creating a variety of seamless textures maps. Create thousands of textures by combining fractal noise, waves, horizontal and radial offsets and color gradients. Creates procedural texture maps that can contain an unlimited amount of detail.
Meta Description: [ CineGraphics is a leading software development company creating plugins and utilities for 3D animation and game creation packages. ]

Meta Workshop - Multi-functional toolbox, which allows an image to be swiftly and easily turn into a repeatable tile. Tiles can be used as textures for 3D objects. Texture Workshop lets you modify the obtained tile by changing its color, contrast, and brightness, as well as applying various inversions.
Meta Description: [ Meta Workshop is a series of programs for webmasters. Meta Workshop programs let a webmaster perform usual operations quickly and easily.Texture Workshop is a multifunctional toolbox which allows to turn practically any picture into a repeatable tile very quickly and easily. Such tiles are us... ]

Paurex - Programs for texture creation and generation, as well as screensavers.
Meta Description: [ Programs for texture generate, create pictures, backgrounds, tesxtures, images. Screensavers. ]

PhotoSEAM - Full-featured image editor for creating seamless photo realistic textures and tiles from digital photography, or from scratch. Anything that you paint, clone, or retouch, automatically becomes seamless. (Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000)
Meta Description: [ Multimedia authoring and graphics software with MP3 support, great for autorun CD - a easy to use CD autorun and multimedia authoring tool ]

Texture Editor - A program to generate procedural quadratic textures.

Texture Synthesis and Analysis by Rupert Paget - Fast texture synthesis by nonparametric MRF modeling, source code is provided, plus many free textures.
Meta Description: [ Fast texture synthesis by nonparametric Markov random field modelling for synthesis of natural textures. Source code is provided, plus many free textures. ]

TextureMagic Homepage - Powerful bitmap editor to transform pictures into seamless textures. Offers plenty of effects and filters.
Meta Description: [ TextureMagic is an application to create seamless textures with ease. Available for Apple Macintosh only. ]

UVMapper - Full featured texture mapping utility program to completely remap a Wavefront (obj) model, or generate texture map templates for models that have already been mapped. Two versions are available Classic (free) and Profession. [Windows and Macintosh]
Meta Description: [ UVMapper is a freeware Windows and Macintosh utility for texturing 3D models ]

XFader - Pegtop Software - Turns BMP or JPG images into seamless textures that you can use as Web backgrounds, desktop wallpaper, or textures for 3D objects. Includes tools for decoration, image merging and filters.
Meta Description: [ PEGTOP XFader ]