Science
ShadowServer is creating regular graphs of botnet and DDoS activity worldwide, and offers a great place to view the recent DDoS against the US and South Korean government.
Microsoft has just released Silverlight3, and it includes new browser support, thousands of new API’s, and GPU accelerated video codecs and rendering functionality.
Pixelux Ships Digital Molecular Matter Maya Plugin
The Digital Molecular Matter system from Pixelux is now available as a Maya Plugin, allowing a previously unavailable degree of realism to your physics simulations.
Adam Aston, over at BusinessWeek, has an article up about everyone’ favorite visualization Guru Edward Tufte. In it he discusses the “less is more” mantra, and the power of “sparklines” .
Starting with a collection of 2D Photographs of an object, David McKinnon’s new software tool 3DSee can generate an accurate 3D model in mere minutes thanks to the power of GPGPU computing.
As part of the VizWeek Discovery Exhibition, Microsoft Research has published a detailed document of the result of their “Heatmap” project which monitors and visualizes access to the Microsoft Virtual Earth system.