GStreamer Editing Services (GES for short) has support for using transitions between clips, so I have been working on adding this support to our web editor last weeks. After the bindings were done, it was just necessary to add a few extra JavaScript and HTML code to get it working on our UI. Here is a sample video:
The support for transitions is already merged in the editor’s git master. It still has a few problems that we are currently working on, but it gives an idea of the possibilites we get by adding video editing capabilities to WebKit.
So, YafaRay is participating in this year’s Summer of Code . We are pleased to annonce the list of students whose proposals are going to be implemented in YafaRay during this summer:
Blender 2.5 Integration by Shuvro Sarker.
SubSurface Scattering by Yong Li.
Irradiance Caching by George Laskowsky.
Exporter plug-in for Maya by Wang Peijun.
Progressive Photon Mapping by Rui Li.
Microrendering for Scalable Final Gathering Istvan Szakats.
From July 13rd to August 17th the YafaRay team was running a rendering contest on the subject “Crazy Machines”. The participants were asked to create imaginary machines that are crazy (in any sense the participant imagined).
We have gotten many entries (which can be seen in the forum thread) and the winners were announced today. Here are the images for your delight:
Winner of the III Yafaray Annual Contest is Xelptic
2nd Position for Gabich
3rd. position for Mookie
Congratulations to the winners and thanks for everybody who partipated in the contest!
Congratulations to Tiago and Pierre-Alexandre and thanks to all other students that submitted proposals to Kopete SoC!
PS: For the ones that didn’t get accepted but still want to work on the projects, just send a mail to the Kopete mailing list and we will try to help mentoring the work.
Enquanto fazia uma limpa nos meus arquivos, encontrei alguns programas que comecei a fazer, mas que nunca concluí. Então decidi colocá-los online para que interessados possam dar uma olhada e (quem sabe) usá-los em algo mais produtivo do que ficarem esquecidos em algum canto.
São programas simples (não espere encontrar nenhum programa Oohhhh), mas assim como eu me diverti quando os criei, espero que divirtam-se com eles.
While doing some cleanup in my home folder, I found some few applications I have started but never finished. So I decided to put all of them online so that people can check and (maybe) use the code for something more productive than being forgotten in the middle of many other disorganized files.
The programs are very simple (don’t expect any Ooohhh application there) but as I had fun doing them I hope you enjoy.
Yafaray is the development version of the open source rendering suit Yafray. The code structure has been totally reviewed and it has gained many new features.
Some time ago I have written an experimental Qt GUI for it (yafaray-qt) which was already fully functional (allowing for loading XML scene and saving them to the image formats supported by Qt itself). Some weeks ago this interface became the official yafaray UI (even if using it as a blender plugin):
yafaray GUI
It is very basic for now, but it does its job already. There are plans for adding more stuff on it, but for now it will stay like that for awhile.
As soon as Mandriva Cooker reopens for development I’ll create a package for yafaray and make it available for testing. For those interested in trying it before that, here is the announcement.
UPDATE: The band’s players are:
Gustavo Boiko on sax Tiago Salem on guitar and vocals Marcelo Zanin on bass
Lucio Spina on drums
Daniel Nicolini on keyboards
Some time ago, I was looking at the INdT’s Canola interface, and I found it really nice. Its look is very clean and the way it displays the contents fits very well in the target devices.
By this time, I was wondering how hard it would be to create an image viewer like the one present in Canola using Qt. To try this out, I started a toy project using Qt and exiv2. It is a very basic image viewer interface that just displays images in a similar way to the Canola interface.
It is very basic and experimental, but for the ones interested on it:
svn co http://svn.gustavoboiko.org/projects/photoviewer/
