In Polaris you must plan your moves carefully! With the right strategy you can clear up to five rings at once, or set off incredibly long chain reactions that are sure to amaze your friends.

Visit the Polaris Website for more information or go directly to Polaris on the iTunes App Store to purchase.

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A few of my friends have been working on this awesome iPhone game in their DAC 304 class. It’s called Drag Racer: Perfect Run. You can see a preview video of the game above, and look for a Lite version coming soon to the iTunes App Store, with a full version in development. David will add some more details about the development process and evolution of the game as well as updates on his blog as they move towards an official release!!

Please see Packed3D for details.

Presenting in front of an audience isn’t easy. I’ve always been shy, but in the past few years I’ve been able to overcome it for the most part. There are days when I go back into a shy state. There is this common misconseption that shy people should be feared, they seem like they’re always planning something.

But what is being shy really? Being shy is caring. Caring about the way you look, the way you stand, the way you act, the things you say. But though you care, you care in the least selfish way imagineable. You care because of the people around you. Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t mean that people who are confident, don’t care. It’s just that they do so within a bigger picture. While a shy person does so in a fragmented way. Takes tiny steps with each action. Strategically plans every move, every conversation, to not offend, not insult. For a shy person being confident, takes practice, but with time, I belive that shyness can be overcome.

Lightstage technology allows you to cross the uncanny valley, by using high speed cameras to capture the way different light conditions affect the skin, and generating a normal map, a texture map, and the mesh itself.
Lightstage has already been used in a few movies such as Spiderman 3, and the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It truely revolutionizes the traditional way of generating meshes.