- 3D Load Packer: Box to Box, Box to Box — 3D Load Packer from Astrokette Algorithms is professional-strength planning software for rapid and accurate placement of various boxes inside containers. Assume you have a huge number of objects with the near-rectangular shapes and significant difference in sizes (boxes), and you need to load them into one or more containers (for transportation or storage). The common solution for the problem is to plan the placement of the objects…
- 3D Drunken Clock Screensaver — The corporate culture has its own idol; Time is the name. «Time is money», right? — However, it is much more than just money. Time is reputation; if you don’t value the punctuality, you don’t value your good name. Time is command playing; when you are in production relay race, a single latecomer in your team may lead the entire plan to the crash. It would not be a gross…
- AirHockey 3D, Fight It! Catch It! — One of the best ideas of «translating» the real world’s games into your computer — Air Hockey game, with its mallets (move it on the table with your hand) and quick colorful puck (push it with mallet) — suddenly finds itself ideally converted into a computer game. The standard mouse (move it on the table with your hand) and colorful quick electronic puck (push it with mouse) give you very realistic feelings…
- Able Graphic Manager — Life is slipping by, but photos remain and remind us of the dearest moments. Everybody has his own favorite pictures. But what should you do if the photo is too small or too large for the frame? You may go to a distant photo center and pay a good amount of money for the result you may not like or buy an expensive program with a number of intricate features you may never use in your lifetime. What did…
- Sketsa SVG Editor 4.2.1, Modern Easy Graphics — Sketsa SVG Editor is modern lightweight cross-platform vector graphics editor with strong relation to the open format known as Scalable VectorGraphics or SVG. Sketsa combines easy user interface, familiar to any digital painter or designer, with deep capabilities to utilize the SVG ideology and features. Sketsa has modern tabbed interface, where you can edit any number of SVG files simultaneously. The application’s toolbox consists…
- 3D Control Magic for .NET, Bright! — Last years have brought us a huge shift in the user interface developments. Many factors have played together: the popularity of Flash and other colorful web development engines; modern video-rendering capabilities of today’s computers; overall informality of computers because of their widespread… Anyway, a nowadays’ user interface MUST be COOL. Unfortunately, the «lightweight» platforms like Flash seem to have…
- 3D Graph Generator 2.4, Visualize Smart! — The rapid development of modern computer-graphics hardware and software is a merit of computer games and other entertaining things. However, all those «entertainment-oriented» features can be effectively used for «serious» data visualization and analysis, completely changing the level of understanding of huge data arrays. A good illustration for the thesis is 3D Graph Generator. The program does exactly what the name…
- Tiger Icon Studio 3D 2.0, Being Modern — Today’s software icons are rather a piece of an art than just a «piece of information». Back in the 90s, they were of just 16×16 pixels of 16 different colors; therefore, we couldn’t expect much those days’ «icon editors» — a palette of colors and the capability to draw point-by-point were just enough. But then, the change of hardware capabilities (screen…
- VectorEye - the most hassle-free method to turn regular images into vector graphics — Whenever you need to convert a standard bitmap image into the vector format to use in a Flash movie or any of the popular vector-based applications, such as CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Mobile Designer, Swish, Inkskape or others, you face a dilemma of doing it manually or finding a tool to perform the conversion for you. Manual conversion may take hours or even days, so you should think well prior…
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