Monday, October 14, 2002

freshmeat.net: Blender 2.25b:"Blender is the in-house software of a high quality animation studio. It has proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument. The software has a personal touch, offering a unique approach to the world of three dimensions. Blender can be used to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations or business graphics, to do some morphing, or to design user interfaces. Developers can easily build and manage complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely fast. All basic animation principles (curves and keys) are implemented." 7:10:04 AM

freshmeat.net: Cygwin 1.3.13-1:"Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for Windows. The Cygwin environment provides a complete port of such development utilities as gcc, binutils, gdb, make, etc., as well as a number of useful utilities." 7:08:59 AM

RoadMap freeware: street maps on Linux:"RoadMap is a program for Linux that displays street maps. The maps are provided by the US Census Bureau, and thus only cover the US. RoadMap has been designed to be usable on both a desktop or laptop computer, or on a PDA such as the iPAQ from HP (formely from COMPAQ). RoadMap is at a very early stage of development. At this time there are not much features implemented yet. RoadMap can merely display the map around a specified street address or follow a GPS device (using gpsd). The plan for the future is to implement some navigation features similar to those found in commercial street navigation systems." 7:07:45 AM