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Recent Blender News from June 6 1999

Disclaimer: Before I get too far into this I should note that any of the news items I post in this section are just that - news. Either I happened to run across them via some mailing list I was on, via some Usenet newsgroup, or via email from someone. I'm not necessarily endorsing these products (some of which may be commercial), I'm just letting you know I'd heard about them in the past month.

Recent Blender News from June 6 1999

- Blender at SIGGRAPH 1999
NaN will give the first public presentation of Blender at the world's most famous CG show, this year in LA, august 10-11-12. Visitors will get a sneak preview of the 2.0 Game-Blender.
http:/www.siggraph.org/s99/

- Complete Key features
Blender 1.63 now has radiosity, environment mapping and DXF output included as C-key features. Version 1.64 will have a text editor (free versions too). We expect to introduce Python scripting in V 1.65.
Check out http:/www.blender.nl/complete/

- Linux 3D h/w acceleration coming?
We hope to demonstrate the first accelerated Linux Blenders at Sig '99. There's still not a working version here... patience!

-Ton-

MpegTV Player (mtv) 1.0.9.8
Kerberos - June 27th 1999, 15:06 EST

MpegTV Player (mtv) is a real-time software MPEG-1 Video+Audio Player and VCD Player. It supports full screen mode, can play from file, pipe, network URL, or Video CD.
http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html

gPhoto 0.3.3
Paul S Jenner - June 28th 1999, 12:40 EST

gPhoto enables you to take a photo from any digital camera, load it onto your PC running a free operating system like GNU/Linux, print it, email it, put it on your web site, save it on your storage media in popular graphics formats or just view it on your monitor. gPhoto sports a new HTML engine that allows the creation of gallery themes (HTML templates with special tags) making publishing images to the world wide web a snap. A directory browse mode is implemented making it easy to create an HTML gallery from images already on your computer.

Changes: Various bug fixes
http://www.gphoto.org/

GIMP Imagemap plug-in 1.1.1
Maurits Rijk - June 28th 1999, 12:38 EST

The GIMP Imagemap plug-in enables The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) to create clickable imagemaps in CSIM, CERN or NCSA format.

Changes: Fixed serious bug that made version 1.1 segfault at start-up.
http://home-2.consunet.nl/~cb007736/imagemap.html