[Buzz.Today]2013.07.26

# OpenFab

3D printing hardware is rapidly scaling up to output continuous mixtures of multiple materials at increasing resolution over ever larger print volumes. This poses an enormous computational challenge: large high-resolution prints comprise trillions of voxels and petabytes of data and simply modeling and describing the input with spatially varying material mixtures at this scale is challenging. Existing 3D printing software is insufficient; in particular, most software is designed to support only a few million primitives, with discrete material choices per object.

OpenFab, a programmable pipeline for synthesis of multi-material 3D printed objects that is inspired by RenderMan and modern GPU pipelines. The pipeline supports procedural evaluation of geometric detail and material composition, using shader-like fablets, allowing models to be specified easily and efficiently. We describe a streaming architecture for OpenFab; only a small fraction of the final volume is stored in memory and output is fed to the printer with little startup delay. We demonstrate it on a variety of multi-material objects.

[OpenFab@Github](http://openfab.mit.edu/)

 

# iPad原型设计软件Prototype

最吸引我的倒不是这个软件，倒是36kr那句“不怕产品灵感瞬间即逝”让我印象极为深刻。

[Home Page](http://www.pentotype.com/)

 

# 百度&Cloud Foundry

据说，百度投放了700名研发者致力于Cloud Foundry平台云应用相关开发工作。

 

# 3D角色在线生成平台Mixamo。

基于Web的Mixamo平台，是端对端3D角色设计解决方案，让开发人员可以将技术和艺术更经济更高效的进行融合，以创建高品质动画。

它可以帮助开发人员更轻易的创建出3D人物动画;用户可以直接上传自己设计的3D人物或使用Mixamo提供的角色进行创作;还能与等Unity 3D、Blender、3ds Max和Maya等主流的3D软件和游戏引擎协同工作。