inkscape, compiz, blender… alter Schwede!

inkscape:
Just came across this. It is impressive to witness what kind of talents OpenSource-tools are able to attract these days. Have a look…

compiz:
Have you ever seen a recent build of compiz running? David Reveman implemented a fragment-shader based blur-plugin which allows clients (could also be done by a toolkit, e.g. gtk+) to define - via a X11-property (_COMPIZ_WM_WINDOW_BLUR) - which parts of a drawable (a whole window, just a widget or a part of the decoration) to blur. The blur is even opacity-dependent. To emphasize the last fact I slightly changed his provided blurdemo program and made a screenshot (note the change in the weight of blurriness from top to bottom in different parts of the window)…

blender:
New site, new version, new everything! Honestly it feels like I just truned away for a moment to look around, look back at blender and have the impression to see a completely new program infront of me. It is most remarkable what the team behind blender put together for the 2.43 release. Super sweet!

FOSDEM:
Finally I want to tout my talk I will be giving this sunday. Though I am not sure that I will be able to draw a large crowd or that I even want to draw a huge bunch of folks. Speaking isn’t something I feel really comfortable with (yet).

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6 Responses to “inkscape, compiz, blender… alter Schwede!”

  1. Sander Says:
    February 24th, 2007 at 11:48 am

    Nice post!
    Could you tell what font you are using for the gnome-terminal tab in the compiz screenshot ("mirco@hal9")? I’ve only seen 10 characters and already love it, but it doesn’t seem to be installed in Ubuntu by default…

  2. Andy Burns Says:
    February 24th, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    The inkscape related site has been overwhelmed, google cache
    http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:UwAoU-4uoOcJ:twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/InkscapeBrasil/ScreenShot3+http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/InkscapeBrasil/ScreenShot3&hl=en&strip=1

    you can download (what I assume you’re referring to) in svgz form from
    http://luciano.kurumin.com.br/images_dicas/xicara.svg.svgz

  3. Abbas Khan Says:
    February 25th, 2007 at 12:42 am

    i love how u always break the boundries of eye candy on the linux desktop

  4. Jeremy Says:
    February 25th, 2007 at 5:20 am

    Sander, the font looks very much like Candara, a font included in Windows Vista. I could be mistaken, though. Two other options are Calibri or Segoe UI, also included in Vista.

  5. jj Says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 6:44 am

    Your blog is very beautiful!

  6. MacSlow Says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 10:26 am

    @jj: Well, it certainly needs some clean up… HTML-wise.

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