Fun technology: World’s first chocolate printer

| Features, Technology | 02/05/2012 12:35pm choc_creator

Attention all chocolate lovers – ever fancied designing and making your own chocolates? Well now you can. See the world’s first chocolate printer in action!

3 great 3ds Max plugins for arch-viz

| Features, Opinion, Technology | 05/09/2011 12:41pm TDW145.t_tips.cust_soft2

Arch-viz is very pipeline-based, and you’ll find yourself doing similar tasks on every project – broaden your horizons and work more efficiently by checking out these three great Max plugins

Top 5 Cinema 4D plugins

| Features, Technology | 31/08/2011 10:16am splinspread

These days we have to rely on more than just our favourite 3D app. We need a supporting cast of plugins to help us get the work done

Autodesk gaining foothold in games development

| Features, Technology | 09/06/2011 15:12pm nDreamsStore

Autodesk’s Maya software is gaining ground in the video games industry as developers increasingly use the software for the creation 3D gaming worlds

LA Noire: The future of facial capture?

| Features, Technology | 20/05/2011 17:33pm lanoire-thumb

On the day of its European release, 3D World takes a look at the MotionScan system behind LA Noire, and its promise of facial capture with no manual clean-up

Interview: The Bakery’s Arnauld Lamorlette

| Features, Technology | 24/01/2011 15:13pm Arnauld-Lamorlette

3D World speaks to Arnauld Lamorlette after it was announced last week that his work with global illumination technology would be honoured with an Academy Award.

Pros and cons of GPU-accelerated rendering

| Features, Technology | 07/01/2011 15:08pm Cloudy_thumb

To accompany our feature from issue 138, Sony Pictures Imageworks CTO Rob Bredow explores the pros and cons of GPU-accelerated rendering.

50 milestones in 3D gaming, part five

| Features, Technology | 30/10/2009 16:47pm 50_3d_milestones_in_gaming4

Read on as we wrap up our selection of 50 milestones in 3D gaming with a selection of ten great adventures that made their mark through advances in 3D technology.

50 milestones in 3D gaming, part four

| Features, Technology | 29/10/2009 16:38pm 50_3d_milestones_in_gaming3

Another 10 classics from our round-up of those 3D games that matter. Today we lock and load with nine amazing 3D action games and one heroic failure.

50 milestones in 3D gaming, part three

| Features, Technology | 28/10/2009 16:11pm 50_3d_milestones_in_gaming2

Continuing our overview of some of the most important 3D games ever, here are 10 titles that took you up into the air and even into space.

50 milestones in 3D gaming, part one

| Features, Technology | 26/10/2009 12:29pm 50_3d_milestones_in_gaming

When counting down the milestones in 3D gaming, there’s only one place to start: the arcades. For many years this was the place that the general public could see the most cutting edge advances in real-time 3D technology.