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cadlabsreview PRODUCE. PERSUADE. PERFORM. ON PAPER. WITH CANON GENUINE Figure 2. Creating hair in trueSpace 7.5 is really easy. And it looks good, too! (Is that Tom Hanks as a blond?) TONER, PARTS AND SUPPLIES. x is for rotate, z is for move, and c is for scale. The software features huge libraries of premade models, scenes, and materials for you to choose from, or you can create your own. How many times have you had a bad hair day? In trueSpace 7.5 you never will, unless you want to (figure 2). You can paint hair onto a character’s head and adjust its length, color, fullness, and whatever else you want. trueSpace 7.5 has some really nice rendering capabilities. You get features, such as subsurface scattering, that used to come only in far more expensive programs. In subsurface scattering, light from the environment actually penetrates the outer surface of your model and sort of bounces around within it. If you want a really good example of what that looks like, take a good, close look at your own skin. The feature makes for very realistic characters. As part of the total rewrite of the code, trueSpace 7.5 got a whole new animation system. It now has real-world physics: gravity (things April 2008 cadalyst www.cadalyst.com fall), collision (things bounce off of one another), adhesion (things stick together), and attraction (magnet-like). You can do realtime walkthroughs controlled by your mouse as in a video game. trueSpace 7.5 also has some very strong character animation. Characters have bones (figure 3, p. 28) that you can push and pull through realistic ranges of motion. You can choreograph entire scenes. You can add prescripted actions that take place at specified points in a scene. For instance, click on a doorknob and the door opens. A light switch turns on the light. trueSpace 7.5 is expressly designed to take advantage of multiple processors. It is massively parallel, which means it will work with as many cores as you can get your hands on. Caligari is much more excited by multicore processors than with 64-bit chips. Caligari said that 100 cores on a chip are just a little bit bigger than one single-core, 64-bit chip — and much more powerful. www.usa.canon.com 1-800-OK-CANON Canon is a registered trademark of Canon Inc. in the United States and may also be a registered trademark or trademark in other countries. IMAGEANYWARE is a trademark of Canon. © 2007 Canon U.S.A., Inc. All rights reserved. 27 http://www.usa.canon.com http://www.cadalyst.com

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Cadalyst - April 2008 Contents Editor's Window Cad Central The Summer of BIM Thin Is In — Large LCD Monitors Caligari trueSpace 7.5 — 3D Modeling Software HP Compaq 8710w — Mobile Workstation Autodesk Design Review 2009 — Design Viewing and Collaboration Software Getting Better — What Should You Learn? Technical Uses for Nontechnical Software AEC on Macs Cad Cartoon Issue Indexes Tips Rain Down on Harry

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