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Lagoa Technologies has developed one of the most real 3d physics simulators I have ever seen. It shows great particle and cloth simulations.

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Want to blow your neighbors Halloween decorations away this year? All you need is a projector and Mark Gervais HalloWindow DVD. With it you can use a window and put up an awesome animation loop that will totally impress anyone going by.

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This is a very intuitive 3d design program that turns all sketched lines into nurbs. This takes the 3D workspace and adds the 2d aspects of virtual sketching together in one program. Enhanced features include automatic rotation and curve enhancement and native sketch gestures. As they say the video is worth a thousand pictures and explains why this program is very cool. I can see why this program would be very useful for product and automotive design.

ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

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Tired of stepping on Lego pieces or just don’t have the space for massive Lego sculpture. Bricksmith is a cool open source program that will allow you to build your own Lego sculpture. They just released the version 2.0 and it includes faster rendering and a Lego man generator.

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Scientists are able to make magnetic waves visible using some post processing effects. I am not exactly sure on the exact technique as it seems very technical but they are feeding some type of recording information into a CGI program to render out the waves. If anyone knows more of the process please comment.

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Stanford has an online tool that will convert images to 3D scene. The system will analyze parts of the image and figure out which parts would be edges to the 3d.

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