breve is a free, open-source software package which makes it easy to build 3D simulations of multi-agent systems and artificial life. Users define the behaviors of agents in a 3D world and observe how they interact. breve includes physical simulation and collision detection so you can simulate realistic creatures, and an OpenGL display engine so […]

Procedural modeling of cities.
Modeling a city poses a number of problems to computer graphics. Every urban area has a transportation network that follows population and environmental influences, and often a superimposed pattern plan. The buildings appearances follow historical, aesthetic and statutory rules. To create a virtual city, a roadmap has to be designed and a […]

Google plans to use trucks equipped with lasers and digital photographic equipment to create a realistic 3D online version of San Francisco, and eventually other major US cities.

SiliconValleyWatcher.com: Scoop! Smile for the Google 3D mapping truck

Procedural texture approach for VFX, Effects, Filters plug-in. Plugins for Photoshop, Combustion and After Effect. Huge texture / 3D materials library.
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hack a day is reporting about SplineScan, an open source, a cross platform 3D scanning tool whose expected cost is about 90 USD.

A description of how the scanner works:
While the target object is rotating on a motion controlled turntable a laser is projected on it. A camera collects images of each step of the […]

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According to Windipundit, Google is releasing to selected Keyhole users a beta version of the Google Earth application.

Since it is an actual software program running on your local PC, Google Earth is much faster and smoother in rendering satellite maps of the entire Earth than GoogleMaps. It initially draws a blurred version of the region […]

I’m an artist exploring the region between art and mathematics, and this is my gallery and storefront. My work is about life in three dimensions: working with symmetry and balance, getting from a zero point to infinity, and always finding beauty in geometry.
Here you’ll find my signature designs in metal, along with 3D laser-etched […]

A German research institute has developed a screen that requires no special glasses to display three-dimensional images and can be viewed even from the side.
From: [New 3D Screen Requires No Special Goggles](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=4&u=/nm/20050310/tc_nm/tech_cebit_3dscreen_dc)
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