High Dynamic Range Image tutorial in Photoshop CS
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In this tutorial, I won’t go into the technical and physical backgrounds of High Dynamic Range Image. Instead, I’ll present you with a basic instruction about the photography of the images needed to produce HDRI’s, the way to go about in Photoshop (which in CS2 has a feature incorporated that will produce a so-called Radiance document with little effort) and how to use the HDRI in 3D (I use Cinema4D but other software will differ only slightly)
Website: www.cliffhanger.nl | Filesize: 936kb
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The Nikon D100 - Review
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I didn’t want to like the D100 but that’s not how it’s turned out! As soon as the D100 slipped into my hands and I looked through the viewfinder, I instantly grew fond of this little digital. While the D100 only weighs a mere 24.7oz, it is packed with goodies. I had to wonder with the 6MP CCD and the low price, what the compromise was in the D100 since Nikon doesn’t give you more for less. The compromise is in the one place that makes the most sense, and that’s write times, because it sure ain’t in image quality. The D100 delivers features you won’t find in any other camera. Point blank, the D100 delivers image quality, no mistaking that!
Website: www.moosepeterson.com | Filesize: 314kb
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Xen Enterprise Grade Open Source Virtualization
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Virtualization has become a key requirement for the enterprise. This results from an urgent need to focus on reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise computing infrastructure. In spite of – or indeed because of – the widespread adoption of relatively cheap, industry standard x86-based servers, enterprises have seen costs and complexity escalate rapidly. In addition to the capital expenditures to purchase them, each server in the data center costs an enterprise about an additional $10,000 per year to run, with costs including provisioning, maintenance, administration, power, real-estate, and hardware and software licenses.
Website: xen.org | Filesize: 1182kb
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F5 and the 8 ways to Virtualization
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F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within its own product line, helping enterprises get closer to achieving their goal of a implementing a complete Virtual Data Center with F5’s Application Delivery Networking products.
Website: www.f5.com | Filesize: 541kb
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A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization
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Until recently, the x86 architecture has not permitted classical trap-and-emulate virtualization. Virtual Machine Monitors for x86, such as VMware R Workstation and Virtual PC, have instead used binary translation of the guest kernel code. However, both Intel and AMD have now introduced architectural extensions to support classical virtualization. We compare an existing software VMM with a new VMM designed for the emerging hardware support. Surprisingly, the hardware VMM often suffers lower performance than the pure software VMM. To determine why, we study architecture-level events such as page table updates, context switches and I/O, and find their costs vastly different among native, software VMM and hardware VMM execution.
Website: www.vmware.com | Filesize: 153kb
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Multi-Media Wiki Mashups for cheap journalists
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Publishing online can be a very expensive process. For $15,000 one can purchase Ellington Software http://www.ellingtoncms.com/ and put it on a $2,000 server and be just like the Washington Post. It’s a really class-act developed in Lawrence, Kansas, with a full multimedia tool box for hosting most any media. And you have complete control over your product.
Website: www.macloo.com | Filesize: 150kb
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Mashup Mania with Google Maps
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A number of new geospatial viewing tools from major players in the Internet industry have recently appeared on the scene and are taking the geospatial world by storm. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Amazon have all released web-based mapping tools in the recent past, and collectively these new players to the industry have raised the bar for Internet mapping. Although their functional capabilities don’t provide anything we haven’t seen in web offerings from traditional GIS vendors, their emergence has been significant in that they have managed to capture a wider audience. Google, in particular, has emerged as the leader of this pack with it’s recently released Google Maps product which provides a slick, highly responsive visual interface built using AJAX technologies along with detailed street and aerial imagery data, and an open API allowing customization of the map output including the ability to add application specific data to the map.
Website: www.geospatialtraining.com | Filesize: 2815kb
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