Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, the next major release of the operating system, is available from 6.00pm Friday (today).

Read about it here

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

A recent press release states:

3D XML to support and extend Microsoft’s XAML format

Redmond, Wash., USA, and Paris, France - April 14, 2005 - Microsoft Corp. and Dassault Systèmes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) today announced that, as part of their strategic alliance and commitment to jointly delivering value to their customers, they will collaborate to support Microsoft’s Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) format in Dassault Systèmes’ 3D Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. XAML is the format for “Avalon,” the code name of the next presentation subsystem for the Microsoft® Windows® operating system

The full statement can be read at

http://www.3ds.com/news-events/press-room/release/858/1/

Adobe Systems it had agreed to buy Macromedia for about $3.4 billion in stock, in order to extend its lead in the market for creating and distributing digital documents.

Read the Press Release at

http://www.adobe.com/…/041805AdobeAcquiresMacromedia.html

An interesting article on rendering at PhysicsWeb

http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/2/6

ends by suggesting the possibility of simulating sound waves in complex geometries (in a similar way to simulating light rays).

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From a physics point of view we would also like to leave geometric optics behind and use the wave nature of light rays instead. As well as allowing us to simulate the visual effects of interference, this opens up the possibility of simulating sound waves in complex geometries. Architects, for example, might eventually be able to use such software to optimize noise pollution in their buildings.

About the author
Jürgen K Singer is a research scientist in rendering at mental images, Berlin, Germany, e-mail jsinger@mental.com

This could be interesting, but perhaps as a means to minimise noise pollution rather than to optimise it

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