Here’s today’s Pixels:
- Free Textures: Grunge Bricks
- Free EPS Files: 95 Amazing & Colorful Floral Designs
- Tutorial: Creating a Vintage Camera in Photoshop
- Tutorial: Using the CSTool Easy Cam in Cinema4D
- 100+ Maya 3D Tutorials
- Video: The Best of Solidworks World 2010
Also, I’ve added another addendum to the popular “Scientific Research in Second Life“, with the following call to action:
Also, if anyone out there meets this criteria, please drop me a line at [email protected] :Using SecondLife, ScienceSim, or any OpenSim based project (OSGrid, ReactionGrid, etc) to visualize and analysis data from a computational simulation run on an HPC platform that is used for actual insight and action. Not for computational research, but to actually create real actionable data for real products.
Weather simulations, blast codes, weight strains, computational chemistry, anything is a go.
I know there are several groups doing Sociological research inworld, and I’ve seen several examples and papers of people performing “Can it be done Inworld” research with computational simulations, but I’ve failed at finding any significant number of people actually using it for “real work” inworld (aside from meetings). If you know of any (I already found Astrosim, which looks interesting), let me know!
