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Open source resources for down sampling point cloud meshes
MeshLab
www.heritagedoc.pt/doc/Meshlab_Tutorial_iitd.pdfInstant Meshes
www.blendernation.com/2015/11/16/instant-meshes-a-free-qaud-based-autoretopology-program/github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes
igl.ethz.ch/projects/instant-meshes/
Open3D
www.open3d.org/docs/release/index.html
www.open3d.org/docs/release/tutorial/geometry/pointcloud.htmlPoint Cloud Utils
awesomeopensource.com/project/fwilliams/point-cloud-utilsMathWorks pcdownsample
www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ref/pcdownsample.htmlNot Open Source
Various software
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Autodesk announces acquisition of cloud-based animation pipeline software LoUPE from Tangent Labs
adsknews.autodesk.com/news/acquisition-software-from-tangent-labs
Autodesk is acquiring LoUPE, the powerful cloud-based production pipeline technology for artists and studios, and the team that created it.
Tangent Labs founder Jeff Bell will be joining Autodesk with his development team.
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Peter Jackson Selling Weta Digital’s VFX Tech Division to Unity for $1.625 Billion
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/unity-weta-deal/
variety.com/2021/digital/news/unity-acquires-weta-digital-1235107544/
Under the deal, Unity is obtaining the Weta Digital suite of VFX tools and technology and its team of 275 engineers, who will join Unity’s Create Solutions division.
Joe Marks, Weta’s chief technology officer, will join Unity as CTO of Weta Digital.
Weta Digital’s VFX and animation teams will continue to exist as a standalone entity, known as WetaFX, which is expected to become Unity’s largest customer in the media and entertainment space. WetaFX, with about 1,700 employees, will remain majority-owned by Jackson and led by CEO Prem Akkaraju. The proposed deal is expected to close before the end of 2021, subject to regulatory approvals.
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apertus – open source cinema
The goal of the community driven apertus° project is to create a variety of powerful, free (in terms of liberty) and open cinema tools that we as filmmakers love to use.
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Mysterious animation wins best illusion of 2011 – Motion silencing illusion
The 2011 Best Illusion of the Year uses motion to render color changes invisible, and so reveals a quirk in our visual systems that is new to scientists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_silencing_illusion
“It is a really beautiful effect, revealing something about how our visual system works that we didn’t know before,” said Daniel Simons, a professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Simons studies visual cognition, and did not work on this illusion. Before its creation, scientists didn’t know that motion had this effect on perception, Simons said.
A viewer stares at a speck at the center of a ring of colored dots, which continuously change color. When the ring begins to rotate around the speck, the color changes appear to stop. But this is an illusion. For some reason, the motion causes our visual system to ignore the color changes. (You can, however, see the color changes if you follow the rotating circles with your eyes.)
