SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater

I visited SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater in Prague yesterday. Everybody could come and saw many nice short movies. I received small gift from PIXEL magazine there too :-). I will become member of Prague ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter next month and I will have chance to visit many interesting presentations (for example: Paul Debevec's presentation) in the future.

Verse-Blender is out

Testing build of Verse-Blender was officially realesed during Blender Conference in Amsterdam, where I had presentation about progress of my work. You can also find news at blender.org. I created user documentation for it too. We had very good meeting with other verse developers in Amsterdam during conference, where we have talked about spec., master verse server, etc. BTW: I have very good feedback at verse-server as well at verse at cgsociety.org.

Blender konference 2005 - Praha

There will be conference about Blender in Czech Republic (it isn't parallel session). You all are welcome! I will have presentation there as well as at Blender conference in Amsterdam. I guess, that you will be able to see me on-line at internet.

In the school again

... tak co s tim uděláme, pane inženýre? :-)

I was at 'small' party at the Faculty of Architecture yesterday (I shouldn't drink so much never more ;-)). It was pretty good, because there are many new students and suprisingly many new students from foreign countries (Portugal, Russia, China, Vietnam, etc.)

I teach 7 lessons per week. Damn! By the way, I'm in different atelier, then last semester. I will post some photos later. It is nice shiny place, but it is impossible to teach anything there (you will see). I will admin almost 30 computers and I will have there more than 50 students :-( (49 new students at viz. kom. and desing). We will have to kick out most of them as soon as possible. If not, then I will escape to some small room next to A3 :-).

Weblog SPAM

I noticed several weblog spam here. What does it mean? After sending new weblog post a received mail notification, that some new comments was added to my weblog. Of course I was curious and I clicked on link. There was usually comment like: 'Your weblog is so cool ... link at my weblog' ... and there was some advertisement. To prevent from this you will have to type some word verification, when you will want to leave me any comment. I hope, that it will not bother you and I hope that I will not have to do some other restrictions in the future.

Firefox 1.5 and SVG

We can expect new version of Firefox very soon and we can download first beta now. Firefox 1.5 will support SVG vector graphics. Firefox 1.5 Beta1 renders SVG quite good, but it still doesn't render .svgz files, it is slow sometimes and it doesn't support specification without problems :-(. What about benefits? It uses Cairo library ... so, we can look forward at hardware acceleration of rendering in the future. I also found very good pages about SVG in HTML containing many examples, tutorials, etc.

Conclusion: download first beta of Firefox 1.5, download Inkscape and create some svg file, read this short tutorial and have a fun! Bye bye, evil flash! *hopefully* :-)