There seems to be nothing better that a completeness. Google has recently published a Noto font that contains more than 800 languages and 110,000 characters. All Noto fonts are licensed under OFL. There will be no ‘tofu’ anymore! Enjoy! But we’ll see if it contains this ‘Biang‘ Chinese character or not later. But since it’s not in unicode… Read More »
Tina O’Hailey’s basic rules of rigging (Rig It Right! 2013) in Maya: Edgeloops – a good or bad rig starts with the loops Never keyframe on the geometry. (Rig for change.) Lock what isn’t going to be animated. Keep geometry (GEO), controls (CNTRL), and skeletons (SKEL) in separate groups in the outliner. Make controls that… Read More »
The U.S. government is soliciting contractors to help develop a ubiquitous urban drone surveillance system over the next three and a half years. Source: Drone detection network to hover over cities
One step forward to be able to read book without flipping a page. This is interesting if it gets mature. I would like to combine this with text-to-speech. Put a book on a desk and boom, there you go the bed time story. Spatial resolution, spectral contrast, and occlusion are three major bottlenecks in… Read More »
The Raspberry Pi 3’s subtle improvements add up to a major usability and performance upgrade. Source: Raspberry Pi 3 review: The revolutionary $35 mini-PC cures its biggest headaches | PCWorld
“Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, uses “chip grafting” to create trees that each bear 40 different varieties of stone fruits, or fruits with pits.” I never knew that it is possible to grow mango and harvest peach. It is amazing that someone could actually graft so many different fruit branches… Read More »
Remembering things that I learned is a nightmare. Especially when I need to use them. This technique of learning things and retaining them is already among us and we have been using it probably without realizing the effectiveness. Now this article really provide us with the realization that whatever stick the most is what we… Read More »
Manipulating and decorating your pictures is an artistic work. Jenny Le explains this techniques in an easy to follow step-by-step tutorial. You’ll appreciate the technique of drawing “flowery” branches and manipulating colors. I am amazed to learn liquify tool is so powerful and handy. The technique may not be simple for beginner but once you’re… Read More »