Author: Prashanth Udupa

aKademy 2008 is going to be from 9 to 16 of August (2008 ofcourse). I really hope to make it this time. Keep tracking http://akademy.kde.org/ Powered by ScribeFire.

I am still not able to do good enough ray casting in VTK Designer 2, but the contouring mechanism is quite good. Powered by ScribeFire.

Quite some time ago, I had blogged about VTK Designer 1.0.5 supporting DICOM image loading. Since we have DFLs in VTK Designer 2 also, I dicided to write some code to support the same thing in vtkd2 as well. And here is the result. This time around, I want to ensure that the support for…

Some really interesting ideas in here… http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/12/YE_10_startups Powered by ScribeFire.

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Visualized this function in VTK Designer var r = sqrt( x*x + y*y ); var z  = sin( PI*r ) / PI*r; Download the VTK Designer Project file for this from here. Powered by ScribeFire.

Its always nice to know when someone calls your work cool 🙂 Read more here. Powered by ScribeFire.

This afternoon I began integrating Phonon into VTK Designer 2. The start has been good; but I am really aiming for something cool. I hope I can do what I have set out to do. Powered by ScribeFire.

Phonon is a neat framework for multimedia applications on Linux. To top that; it is written using Qt. Like Marble; it does not need KDE to work. Recently Trolltech announced Phonon backends for Linux, Windows and Mac; which means that we can now provide Audio and Video capabilities in Qt applications 🙂 I wanted to…

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This will really interest you. http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/164 Powered by ScribeFire.

FOSS.IN is always a fun event. This year it was no different; although I am beginning to feel that even this year the talks were mostly “intro-type” in nature. The good thing about FOSS.IN however is that one gets to meet the whos-who of the FOSS world (KDE world in particular for me). I could…

Our VTK Designer project has been nominated for FOSS India Awards 2008. Please cast your vote for our software so that we can win it ;). http://www.openitis.com/openitis/project_view.php?id=113PS: For people who are wondering who nominated it and why… I got an email from the editorial coordinator of Linux For You asking me to write about any…