Unified Color has released v3 of its HDR software, along with the Photoshop plugin version, 32Float. (more...)

A trailer has been posted for IL2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, a flight simulation combat game by 777 Studios and 1C. Watch it on Vimeo.

Madrid-based Next Limit has made available two videos showing the capabilities of v2013 of its fluid dynamics simulation software: Client Showreel, Technical Reel.

Chaos Group have published an online magazine covering a preview of their upcoming V-Ray 3.0 renderer with Vladimir Koylazov, (Vlado, creator of V-Ray), plus some great interviews with artists from studios like Blur and Factory Fifteen. You can download or read the magazine online via the Chaos Group website.

For those who were not able to attend, or missed a lot of the news from last week, CG Channel has posted an article reviewing some of the best new software that was on display at SIGGRAPH 2013 in Anaheim, California. You can read the article over at CG Channel.

MIT researchers have developed a programmable pipeline for printing multi-material objects that is inspired by RenderMan and modern GPU pipelines. It aims to overcome several computational limitations that current 3D printing technologies face, and will help enable better replication of real objects. OpenFab supports procedural evaluation of geometric detail and material composition, and offers a streaming architecture. Only a small fraction of the final volume is stored in memory and output is fed to the printer with little startup delay. More on MIT's website.

NVidia's Miles Macklin has posted a number of videos showing recent research the NVidia PhysX team has been doing on GPU-based fluids, including interaction between fluids, rigid bodies and cloth. The slides of the corresponding paper presented at SIGGRAPH have also been made available. More on Miles Macklin's blog.

MysticThumbs generates thumbnails for many image formats not natively supported by Windows Explorer, including .max files. Plus it provides a number of options for creating enhanced thumbnails. The software costs $25. More on MysticCoder.net.