The article explores how AlphaPixel tackles the challenges of forward porting legacy media and code, including recovering data from 1980s and 1990s hardware. Through a real-life example involving an Amiga-based raytracer project, it highlights the complexities of resurrecting old code, using modern tools to extract and convert outdated formats for modern use.
Dopamine Driven Design mocks all of the fad development management practices you are so sick of already.
The article explains how to implement a simple vision-based navigation system using OpenCV and Python. It demonstrates a toy example where position metadata is encoded into floor colors, with red and green channels representing X and Y coordinates. Through code examples, the article walks through creating this artificial environment, capturing data with a camera, and processing it to estimate position, orientation, and more advanced navigation techniques.
Vision Navigation is a blanket term that describes using optical-like raster input devices to discover your position and orientation (“pose”) and then use that position to plan, execute and monitor changes in position/pose within the environment. This whitepaper introduces the techniques, strengths and weaknesses, applications and processes of computer vision navigation.
AlphaPixel Software Development and OpenSceneGraph Professional Services have released OVR_MultiView2 extension support for OpenSceneGraph to greatly improve performance of OpenSceneGraph on multi-view applications (VR/AR, Holographic). Working together, AlphaPixel and Robert Osfield, project lead of OpenSceneGraph, have integrated support for the OpenGL extension called GL_OVR_multiview2 ( https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/OVR/OVR_multiview2.txt ). This extension can significantly decrease rendering overhead
We are now a Directive 5230.25 / DD2345 certified US-based software developer. For 2021, AlphaPixel has become certified by the United States Defense Logistics Agency with a Militarily Critical Technical Data Agreement to allow us access to unclassified technical data governed by DoD Directive 5230.25. DD2345 / Directive 5230.25 certification is required by U.S. or Canadian
AlphaPixel will be at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (IITSEC) in Orlando, FL, November 29th through December 3. We will be showing off the diverse talents we can apply to your toughest projects involving 3D Graphics, GIS/GPS/INS/Telemetry, Terrain/Maps, LIDAR, WebGL, Unity, Unreal, Mobiles Devices, Embedded Systems, UAVs, Avionics and more! Our show special rate of 10% off
AlphaPixel and Red Geographics partnered to produce a massive, detailed relief map of the United States to be etched into black marble for a custom cartography art installation.
In a powerful one-two punch, AlphaPixel added support for the NVidia Jetson TK1 to the Open Source Yocto Linux distribution-builder, and then added OSG and OsgEarth (and their dependencies like GDAL) support to Yocto, allowing for easy and functional deployment of OSG/osgEarth apps on the powerful Jetson platform. The Jetson is a Tegra K1 (ARM
In July 2014, AlphaPixel celebrated its ten year anniversary. Along the way, we’ve produced an amazing variety of graphics and digital imaging work for a staggering variety of clients and needs. We celebrated with some of our closest associates in beautiful Morrison Colorado on a lovely summer evening full of good food, drink, company and
