The New 3D Landscape, Part 2 David compares Alias's Maya 6 and Avid's Softimage XSI 4 in part 2 of his survey of the state of 3D visualization. Mon, 8 Nov 2004
Epson's Online Print Academy David reports that Epson's Online Print Academy film series is a great learning tool for photographers to make the transition from film to digital shooting, processing, and printing. Mon, 11 Oct 2004
The World's Biggest Desktop Printer David creates inkjet prints twenty-four inches wide that last decades, right on the desktop with HP's new Designjet 130nr. Mon, 20 Sep 2004
Four Heads Are Better Than One David creates an OpenGL-accelerated 6400 by 1200 pixel desktop with NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 600 PCI graphics card. Mon, 6 Sep 2004
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 David reports that Adobe’s Premiere Pro 1.5 video editor takes desktop editing on the PC to a new level. Mon, 23 Aug 2004
Five Indispensable Multimedia Tools David tests production-enhancing peripherals from Contour Design, Belkin, Lexar, Canopus, and InterVideo. Mon, 9 Aug 2004
Building a Better Pixel, Part 2 David compares the image quality of photographs taken with Nikon's Coolpix 8700, Fuji's S20 Pro, and Sigma's sd10. Mon, 14 Jun 2004
Building a Better Pixel, Part 1 David discovers there's a lot more than mere pixel count to the latest digital camera image sensors from Nikon, Fuji, and Foveon. Mon, 31 May 2004
LCD Displays Come of Age HP's L2035 LCD is the first affordable flat panel David prefers to a CRT tube for both digital photography and video. Mon, 17 May 2004
combustion 3 Challenges After Effects 6.5 Nothing stresses a computer more than multilayered video. David compares the performance of the two top desktop video effects and animation applications head to head. Mon, 3 May 2004
HP Builds a Better Printer David tests two impressive new desktop inkjet photo printers from HP that produce lush color and archival black-and-white prints. Mon, 12 Apr 2004
BYTE Media Lab 2004 Imaging Awards, Part 2 David hands out the Media Lab’s imaging hardware awards for the best camera, printer, workstation, scanner, graphics card, display, video tool, and peripheral. Mon, 29 Mar 2004
BYTE Media Lab 2004 Imaging Awards, Part 1 David hands out awards for last year's best photography, illustration, Web design, and multimedia software products. Mon, 15 Mar 2004
Copyrighting Your Digital Images David reports that digital technology and recent changes to copyright law have streamlined the process of protecting your digital images and photographs. Mon, 1 Mar 2004
Minolta's Dimage A1 Camera David reports that Minolta's latest digital camera sets a new standard for price/performance. Sun, 15 Feb 2004
Turbo Squid Flexes Its 3D Muscles David reports on a bundle of 3D plugins from Turbo Squid that lets you build worlds with oceans and rainbows, attach virtual muscles to digital skeletons, and render images to look like Rembrandt etchings. Mon, 2 Feb 2004
3ds max 6 David takes Discreet's 3ds max 6 for a spin and reports back on the latest advances in 3D visualization and animation. Mon, 19 Jan 2004
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
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