Author: Prashanth Udupa

1000 downloads of VTK Designer in 51 days!

It has been 51 days since VTK Designer 2.7 was out (on 23rd Feb). We have had close to 1000 downloads (binary, source and pdf put together) since then! In the same period the new version of GCF got 360…

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Menger Sponge Fractal in VTK Designer

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Fractal Terrains in VTK Designer

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Fractals in VTK Designer

I am teaching a course on OpenGL programming to Computer Science Engineering students in VTU, through its EDUSAT program. In my next class I am supposed to teach rendering of fractal images/models in OpenGL. While preparing for the class, I…

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Barack Obama on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’

I particularly like one response from Obama…. MR. OBAMA: Well, and part of what happened over the last 15, 20 years is that so much money was made in finance that about 40 percent, I think, of our overall growth,…

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VTK Designer 2 – Downloads last week

The last versionof VTK Designer was out on 23rd of Feb. It is a little more than a week since the last release was out and we have had 141 (124 from SourceForge, and 17 from our own website when…

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Filmfare to Hrithik, Jodha Akbar

I am personally very happy about this year’s Filmfare winners. It is refreshing to see the awards not going to the default ones. My wife and I decided to not follow the proceedings as soon as we saw that SRK…

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Coming: Mobile Number Portability

Read more about this here: http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Coming_Mobile_Number_Portability/551-84416-613.html The moment this is implemented, I am most surely going to change from AirTel to BSNL. The only reason I am not moving away from AirTel right now is because it is a pain…

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GCF 2.1.0 Tagged

Today, we tagged the release of 2.1.0. The main new feature of GCF 2.1.0 is menu-strip drawers. You can read more about it by clicking on the following links and by downloading the new release itself ! http://prashanthudupa.livejournal.com/35705.html http://prashanthudupa.livejournal.com/35933.html Download…

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VTK Designer 2.7.1 is out

VTK Designer 2.7.1 is now out. The last release was on 14th of October 2008. Some changes we have since then are 1. Support for Bezier Surfaces. Custom classes from VCL: vtkBezierSurfaceSource and vtkBezierSurfaceWidget are now supported.2. Thumbnail preview of…

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Interesting to read !

Somebody forward this story to me.. I thought it was amusing.. —— Once upon a time the government with Ruling Party XYZ.. had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Ruling Party XYZ Said.. – “Someone may…

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BI-BOX … A creative product

BiBox is a product from a startup-company, founded by one of my friends from JNNCE Shimoga. It targets the education sector, which in my opinion is a very huge market. It allows kids to visually design electronic gadgets and bring…

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Haptics Workshop at IIT Mumbai – Techfest

I am at IIT-Mumbai right now attending the Techfest. This year, among several parallel tracks, they have arranged for a Haptics track. Manav, a MTech student, who is organizing the track contacted us about a month ago asking us if…

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The rumor was infact true! Qt 4.5 will also be available under LGPL.

http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/licensing/a-letter-to-our-customershttp://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/lgpl-license-option-added-to-qt It would be a good move if KDE decided to adopt the LGPL version of Qt 4.5 instead of the GPL one. That way people would be able to develop both closed and open-source software for Qt without having…

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