The 3D Blaster ® RIVA TNT2™ PCI is a high quality 2D/3D/video graphics accelerator card that is well suited for a wide variety of applications ranging from everyday desktop use to gaming and entertainment.

Leveraging the RIVA TNT2 M64 graphics controller from NVIDIA ®, the 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 PCI delivers high quality and performance. Its dual texture architecture can process 2 pixels or textures per clock cycle; this enables developers to create special effects such as multi-layered textures, bump mapping to simulate rough surfaces, and environmental mapping that gives objects reflective properties. Developers can take advantage of advanced filtering modes (including trilinear mipmapping and anisotropic filtering) with full scene anti-aliasing to create realistic images that rival more expensive graphics workstations.
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Fortran is the most widely used programming language in the world for numerical applications. It has achieved this position partly by being on the scene earlier than any of the other major languages and partly because it seems gradually to have evolved the features which its users, especially scientists and engineers, found most useful. In order to retain compatibility with old programs, Fortran has advanced mainly by adding new features rather than by removing old ones. The net result is, of course, that some parts of the language are, by present standards, rather archaic: some of these can be avoided easily, others can still be a nuisance.
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What on earth is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 carries a high profile and surrounding hype. Developers must surely be feeling the heat to quickly adopt the new second generation of dynamic, interactive and simple by design technologies.

Web 2.0 is the term pioneered by O’Reilly for new generation Web applications.Live.com, start.com, Google maps, Google Docs, YouTube, Flickr, and MySpace are few examples. Adaptation of this technology vector has changed the web application development approach and methodology significantly.AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript), RIA(Rich Internet Applications) and Web Services form the core components of Web 2.0applications.
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This document describes how to capture video and export audio from a DV recording using Apple iMovie. You should know whether your recording is in PAL or NTSC format.iMovie does not copy the time code from the DV tape while capturing.This means that it’s not possible to re-capture exactly the same piece at a later point unless you manually look up the correct time codes on the tape.Final Cut Pro does copy the time code from the tape.
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Animations, whether they are in movies, television, or video games, would not capture the viewer’s interest if they were not accompanied by music. Music can set the tone for a scene and is generally added after the animation has been completed. It takes a large amount of work to coordinate a piece of music with a final animation, especially when specific movements must occur at certain times in the song. This paper describes a method of automatically synthesizing an animation that synchronizes with the input music. Our system allows the user to choose a piece of music and a character and outputs a synchronized animation that expresses the emotion and intent of the music through movement.
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In this tutorial we will examine the process of placing a Blender model into the Google Earth application. Google Earth provides satellite imagery depicting the entire earth and allows users to insert three-dimensional objects at specific latitudinal and longitudinal locations.
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A BrickMap is a good way to speed up your render times if you have a complicated environment that also has a moving camera shot. By creating a BrickMap you no longer have to calculate the occlusion on each frame;it simply references the BrickMap file. You will want to wait to create a BrickMap pass until you have finished modeling your set,as you can’t make any adjustments or changes to your set once you create the BrickMap,or else you will have to re-create it.
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This document describes how to export shading networks and shaders from mental mill so that they can be used right away in the viewport rendering in Maya. A basic knowledge of how to work with mental mill or Maya is assumed. If you are not familiar with these tools,please take a look into the respective help documents of mental mill and Maya if you want to learn more about the applications themselves.
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