Brackets - another editor for development.

This is a modern, open source text editor with a great design that understands web design and is named Brackets.
Is created with JavaScript and you can contribute and create your extensions.
The team development comes with this intro:
Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor. We blend visual tools into the editor so you get the right amount of help when you want it without getting in the way of your creative process. You'll enjoy writing code in Brackets.
This editor can be found at the official webpage.
See this screenshot with this editor:

GDevelop - game programming tool .

A quick introduction to this online tool comes from the official website , see this:

GDevelop runs on Windows, macOS and most recent Linux distributions.
You can also try it online using Chrome, Firefox or another recent web browser. 
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GDevelop is an open-source project.

This is tool can be used on your desktop with most operating systems but also online.
I tested it and it's easy to use and come with default examples and sample.
The result can be used on web or like application.
For Android applications you need to install it on your desktop.

The Mischief 2.1.5 - another drawing tool.

This is tool come free and you can use a paid version.
The paid version come with one price $25 more features :  presets, a full color palette, layers, and export to PSD files.
This allows you unlimited freedom to sketch, create and save brushes, hot keys and shortcuts.
You can used with Windows 7/8 and Mac OS X. I tested with Windows 10 and works great.
The output of your project is filename with the extension named .art .
The result of your work can be export like .pdf , .jpeg or .pds files.
The free version I don't see the copy paste option, but you can use export to save your drawing image.
This application come with few feature in the free version.

Blender 3D - Dynamic Paint Waves

Today a make a video about Dynammic Paint Waves.

I use two planes and one cylinder.

First plane has one texture with some text. The next plane is black.

The cylinder make some waves ( using dynamic paint waves) this will show something from plane with texture. The black plane will be into the front of camera. The render image will be just one part of the texture plane.

After that the plane with texture - text will come into the front of camera with some rotation of the plane.

This will make one slide transition of the entire texture and will show us the text.

See the final video :

News - Blend4Web framework.

The new framework for authoring and interactive rendering of three-dimensional graphics and audio in browsers is named Blend4Web.
This software let you to creating visualizations, presentations, online-shops, games and other rich internet applications.
The Blend4Web framework is a library for web pages, a Blender addon and some tools integrated tightly with 3D modeling and animation tool Blender.
You can download it from here.

View molecules online ...

You can see many molecules example.
It's working well with Firefox , Chrome, Opera and Safari.
See more on this website
The next image show us the penicillin ...

News ... Synfig Studio 0.64.0 for Windows is available now.

Synfig is the best , light and easy way to do an animation. I used with linux and is simple tool to make animation. I think this software can be one great educational software. Your child will leave aside the pencil and sketchpad, watercolors to make own animations. Let's see the demo reel from 2012 by Rafael Bardisa.

Catzilla the new graphics benchmark .

Catzilla is an OpenGL 4 and Direct3D 11 graphics benchmark for Windows and has been developped by Plastic, a Polish demogroup.

The benchmark uses a parallel graphics engine that takes advantage of multi-core CPUs.

The size of this it's a 500 MB.

This benchmark is in beta phases and working with OpenGL 4.0 and DirectX 9 or 11.

You can try it with all the Windows platform (64-bit and 32-bit) Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 .

You can download the installer from here.

Source code from Windows 7 and 8: WM_GESTURE , WM_TOUCH , WM_POINTER

This a good news for the developers , Microsoft share source code to make available Touch feature in Windows desktop.

This sample demonstrates how to integrate touch into an application designed for a typical keyboard/mouse paradigm. Functionality has been added for many estures, showing how to map touch interactions to typical mouse interactions along with adding new gesture-only behavior such as two-finger rotate to rotate the truck and two-finger tap to reset it. The sample uses the Windows 7 WM_GESTURE API to provide the touch support and is supported on Windows 7 and Windows 8 with and without a touch screen.

You can get source code and demo to try it.