Fantastic trailer guys. 👍

Just a heads up, "Surf with caution rating" on bootstrapcdn.com at http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/website-safety-reports/domain/bootstrapcdn.com

Have to ask again, is it really needed to use so much 3rd party scripts with sketchucation? The site is on the top5 tech site I do use, but I really wish that site itself where build so that there are less options for cross-site scripting attacks.

About the voting on some mealier post. I don't think this is a matter of voting (For website is a question how site owner considers security to be important with relations to it's customers), as it's so easy to cast a vote by just based on a feeling. But like I in opening post warned, there been security issues with bootstrapcdn.com and now month later the site is rated "Surf with caution rating". For me it stays blocked by no script...

There also 3rd party scripts from metacdn.com that luckily seems to have a better record with safety, but blocking those scripts will break forum... so I am now in a situation, where I need to consider if sketchucation is more important for me than security I tend to keep when surfing the web. No judgement yet... but for last months track is not good in that are of the site.

Latest news on 3D scanning and surveying

http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/

Bep

@unknownuser said:

Pay with only money for avoid problem! 💚

erm... don't know if that helps if you want to use latest Photoshop and so (meaning the "suite" that forces people on monthly payments... the all mighty creative cloud).

With upcoming release v.1.3 Presto engine will use both GPU and CPU...

@unknownuser said:

Dear friends,

a lot of you have already guessed what our next tech announcement will be and indeed it is about Presto running on both GPU and CPU. This announcement is probably among the most important ones in Thea Render tech achievements. Unifying GPU and CPU under the same (render) framework is not an easy job. With Thea Presto being written from scratch, we had the ambition, right from the beginning, to harvest all the computer power that is available.

For coding Presto on the CPU, we didn't want just a "port" of the code from Nvidia CUDA architecture to x86/CPU architecture. We wanted to squeeze the CPUs to the max and see a real performance comparison between GPUs and CPUs. For this, we decided to adapt Intel's Embree library. What does this mean? with every GPU and CPU core running Presto, it means fast, very fast, rendering. And this fast rendering is coupled with Thea's material/light system. All in all, pure quality in the shortest render times! 😄

What is also quite interesting is the performance comparison between GPUs and CPUs. We have modeled four scenes specifically for this purpose and ran the benchmarks on various machines (our own plus beta tester machines). It is very nice to see that CPUs stay up to their task and bring a significant speed boost. The actual relative performance between GPUs and CPUs depends heavily on the system and scene type.
CausticsBenchmarkLiveScreenshot.jpg
Actually, to our knowledge, Thea Presto is a unique engine that makes it possible to compare GPUs and CPUs under the same render framework with performance maxed out for both architectures, in a systematic way*. You are welcome to download the detailed benchmark pdf document attached with this post.

Best wishes

Disclaimer: the comparison between the GPUs and CPUs is only made within Thea Presto framework and does not imply any kind of general performance superiority of a specific processor/architecture.

More benchmarks and discussion at related topic http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17%26amp;t=13779

A mobius building - ingenious!
But we might need to invent some new architectural terms when the technology catches up with the concept - is that surface a floor or a roof? Maybe a "Floof"? 😄

@notareal said:

GTX580 is not a bad at all. But as used architecture between kepler and fermi is rather different, cuda core to core comparison is difficult. There been talk that GTX6xxx series is inferior to GTX5xxx series, but this seems to be true only in some spesific instruction that Thea does not use. When some new CUDA features are used, GTX6xxx has some benefits.

It would be very interesting to see a speed comparison between a 580 and a 680...

Thank you...

Pretty priceless comment from that girl, no curry for dinner 😉

Amazing video ! 😎

New Lumia 920 got a pureview camera too. Just a different kind - this a for low light situations, with OIS and BSI sensor (8.7MB).
http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/7/3299784/nokia-lumia-920-pureview-camera-hi-res-photos
http://www.nokia.com/global/products/pureview/
Waiting for tests from dpreview 🎉

@massimo said:

Wonder why hijacking this topic with the same question you have asked two times on KT forum having already received an answer there... 😒

😆 i am sorry, i didn't know that. i just turned on my pc. and head straight to this forum. 😒

[ed] wow.. thank you masimo for the reply and link there. i love you so muuuuccccchhhh... 😄

mother of pearloid dinette set

Okay, here is my entry.

I love cartoons so why not a chameleon cartoon render. Made with Artisan sculpt tools

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4987/chameleonlines1.jpg

And a simple render.

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/9871/chameleonthea.jpg

Great news, but I could kick myself!!!!
I downloaded the beta a few weeks ago but have been so busy with work I did not get chance to try it out. After thinking about it earlier today I thought, just buy it while it is at the lower price. On going to the site earlier I realised it had gone up in price by around €100. I forgot it was 1st March it went up.
I need to save up some more money, or stick with Twilight 😄

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