Programming and animation

Animation studio website

I’m really happy to say that now our animation studio has it’s own web site! You’re welcome – mocap.com.ua

GLSL shaders tips: NVidia and AMD difference.

Rigid body tracking

For the studio we use our inhouse software and tools.
For example, processing of points cloud.

One of the most important algorithms, which connects the entire processing of the skeleton – the tracking of rigid bodies. I have attached the recording video demonstrating the work of tracking a set of points.

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Chess Titans bug

In the delivery to Win7 there are set of games, including all the well-known chess wrapping into the Chess Titans. So I decided to play a game with the computer, but he was a shameless cheater. In the Chess Titans there is an issue where a pawn can eat your opponent’s pawn just passing by.

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Unlimited detail

Here of course the main question – “shoot” this technology or not? would it be a revolution in the field of computer graphics?

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OpenGL 3.3 and OpenGL 4.0

The Khronos Group announced the release of the OpenGL® 4.0 specification. This is a significant update to the most widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API, and includes the GLSL 4.00 update to the OpenGL Shading language allowing developers to access the latest generation of GPU acceleration. Here is a specification - http://www.opengl.org/registry/

Watch the video now

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Autodesk software releases

Autodesk presented a new set of products for this year. I would like to highlight some of them, particularly in MotionBuilder, Maya, 3dsMax …

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Real powerfull alternative to the desktop

When working with the desktop want more: more tools to the organization, more dynamics, effects. Any additional utilites like stickers, assistants and others are beginning to clog the taskbar, and eventually get rid of them … they lack the lightness. And finally caught me truly worthy contender to replace the desktop – Bump top. I have installed him and he was free to fit into the work. Not even have to get used to how it was with all sorts of variations on the theme of “3D desktop”. One of those products that are made with taste and made beautiful and qualitatively.

Official website of the Bump top

ActiveX in the Google Chrome

Original IE Tab overview says:

Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab. Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome. Great for web developers who want to test the IE rendering engine, users who use sites with ActiveX controls, and users who want to use the explorer view for local files (i.e. file:// URLs).

You could find IE Tab extension here.

How MoCap Works on Brad’s FIE Blog

Recently I have found an interesting blog with the analysis of technologies, materials and algorithms for optical motion capture. In particular site you’ll find interesting articles on the reconstruction of 3D position of the point of a set of 2D image from cameras; information about the markers and reflective ability, as well as review of the most popular solutions for tracking points and calculate trajectories of markers.

Blog is here.