New toys: Lightflow

Thanks to ellis at geeknews for pointing this out: Lightflow Rendering Tools 1.1 have been released.?Among its features are displacement maps, blobs, environment mapping, and procedural patterns for things like scales and particle systems.?The interface for it...

17 Nov, 1999 - 4:43 PM

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The Wonko: Geekreader

Wonko from WonkoSlice has hacked up a quick program called: GeekReader.?GeekReader is a very very early beta version of a news grabber.?It's pretty barren as far as functionality goes at the moment, but with your feedback and...

17 Nov, 1999 - 10:39 AM

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Stuff: volume 2

Yes I told you it would be weekly..?Well This week was crazy for us here we had some major traffic to my review on Quake3Arena Demo (which kicks ass by the way) and I mean major traffic: 71,799...

16 Nov, 1999 - 8:49 PM

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Oh my God, they killed Wendy!

Whoa, the actress who did all of the female voices except for Bebe on South Park died on Friday of an apparent suicide.?She was 38 years old.?Along with the South Park voices, she also voiced Snow White, numerous...

16 Nov, 1999 - 5:47 PM

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Now I've seen it all

Iomega has a new cdrw drive that uses USB, that's right, the interface originally meant for low quality video at best, is going to be used for a cdrw drive.?I thought an ide cdrw drive was...

15 Nov, 1999 - 10:55 PM

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3dfx Announces First Implementation of Voodoo 4& 5

3dfx Interactive Inc.?today announced the first implementation of its new Voodoo Scalable Architecture technology.?The initial advanced processor, the VSA-100, is a highly scalable design that supports the integration of one to 32 chips per system, using proprietary programmable...

15 Nov, 1999 - 9:25 AM

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Review: Quake 3 Demo Test

Well as you posted earlier we all know that the Quake3 Demo Test (that's right a demo of the demo).?I was one of the fortunate people who got to play the same night(and I mean all night) it got...

15 Nov, 1999 - 4:07 AM

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Quake3 Demo Test Released

The long awaited for Quake III Demo test is out as of less than 10 minutes ago..?While Linux and Mac versions have not been released the Win32 release can be downloaded at...

15 Nov, 1999 - 12:11 AM

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Really big sculptures in North Dakota

Did you know that North Dakota has less tourist traffic than any other state? TV Nation did a whole story on that, and it was quite funny.?Well, much to my surprise, it does have a nifty attraction.?There...

14 Nov, 1999 - 11:09 PM

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www.amazon.gr?

Looks like this may be the beginning of a long line of cases of foreign companies, copying US domain names, selling similar products.?Amazon.com is currently in a court battle with a site in Greece that is selling books...

14 Nov, 1999 - 11:06 PM

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Innovative toys from zowie suck

Mike Landberg gave a really detailed review of Zowie Intertainment's new toy, Redbeard's pirate quest. The idea is pretty cool, a big ship with four figures that are tracked by the computer by plugging into the serial port and...

14 Nov, 1999 - 10:42 PM

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Check out our gallery, and contribute to it

The current poll is an attempt to generate some more interest in our gallery section.?If you haven't seen it check it out, and if your an artist yourself send us an email to gallery@dtheatre.com with links to...

14 Nov, 1999 - 1:52 PM

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Renderman level rendering from Rhino

Rhino just keeps looking better all the time.?They now have a package called BMRT which gives Rhino all the rendering capabilities of Renderman, with the Renderman Standards such as raytracing, radiosity, area light sources, texture and...

14 Nov, 1999 - 11:35 AM

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Mag gets flatscreen CRT technology

MAG InnoVision, one of the industry's leading suppliers of high-end color monitors and display technology, Friday introduced the 796FD, a new 17-inch monitor utilizing flat-surface FD Trinitron technology to produce an extremely fine on-screen image with zero distortion...

13 Nov, 1999 - 10:43 AM

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NetDrives Releases a MP3 Deck

Never again will you be chained to your computer (and computer speakers or Rio) to hear your favorite songs.?NetDrives is releasing Brujo, a deck that not only plays regular CD's, but also CD's with MP3's encoded...

13 Nov, 1999 - 1:16 AM

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Art made from focus groups

What's the most pleasing image to casual art viewers? Two deer and a hippopotamus in a mountain lake on a partly cloudy day with people relaxing near the shore.?According to a survey of 1,001 adults by two Russian...

13 Nov, 1999 - 12:12 AM

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