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Es gibt mal wieder ein offizielles Blender Model Repository. Mal sehen wann das wieder zu macht

Hi Folks,

during the last weeks and possibly even months I collected a lot of interresting stuff for you. As I currently don’t feel like writing tons of blog entries you’ll get the compact version today. And here we go (in no particular order):

• Beryl
  is a OpenGL powered window manager with lots of nice effects like burning menus and 3D features. See YouTube for a lot of action clips or see this video for a impressive first glance.
  
• FlickrSpy – The Flickr Peepshow!
  This is what I’d call a useful AJAX application. See a endless list of the latest images uploaded at Flickr. Nothing more, but nothing less.
• 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
  presented by smashing magazine. There are some real gems, but somehow I really like the default WordPress theme
• Shutdown Day
  Shutdown you computer a whole day!!! on March, 24th
• Command & Conquer 3
  is about to hit the streets and this might be the best time do download and play the 1.2 GB demo version!
• YUI-Hosting
  Yahoo is willing to host their your YUI files. This definitely looks like a win-win situation. You can save hundreds of bytes of traffic, and Yahoo will get every information about your users they could ever dream of But on the other hand, Google and it’s thousand tools ain’t better.
• MiniAjax.com
  A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts. There’s a site for everything out there!
  via pixelgraphix
• Seitwert
  A german page ranking site. Enter your german domain name and get ranked. This page’s Seitwert is 30.60 / 100, but Yahoo’s is also only 49.39 / 100. Judge for yourself

Well, I think that’s it for today, but be sure, there’s more to come!

… using just a webcam and a laser pointer.

The DAVID Laserscanner software really is what I’d call high tech!

Sadly I don’t have a laser pointer at the moment, but I’m pretty sure there’s at least one of my readers willing to try this out!

Here’s what the creators have to say about their software:

DAVID is a freeware software for laser range scanning. All you need is a PC, a camera (e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser which projects a line onto the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it to scan objects without high costs; this is the big advantage over commercial solutions which are rather expensive.

Check it out!

You need a 3D model? No prob, just go to Google 3D Warehouse and search for it. You find several models to download and use with Google’s own 3D software SketchUp.

Google 3D Warehouse

This is a desktop that rocks! We don’t need another time eater – from now on you can waste your time while playing with your desktop objects

Watch those videos!

BumpTop Prototype

SharpConstruct is a 3D modeling program that paint depths on to polygon models in real-time. Unlike traditional modeling programs, SharpConstruct makes it easy to model organic shapes. There is no need to even look at a wireframe (unless you want to). Instead, the model is manipulated much like clay — push or pull an area, smooth it, make a hollow or a hill. The entire process is both simple and organic; you won’t need years of modeling experience to create detailed models in SharpConstruct.

Sounds a lot like an OpenSource ZBrush Clone to me. Haven’t tried it yet, but for a 0.12 Release it sure looks promising.

via Death Fall

Do you know and like JuggleMaster or JuggleMaster Java? Then check out JMJ3D. It’s three times as cool … well, of course, it’s three dimensional

FIFTYEIGHT 3D is about to relaunch their site. There’s already a new showreel as well as two short movies available. What are you waiting for? Get it while it’s hot.