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arstechnica has a great article on Valve’s HDRI technology, including word on DoD, Lost Coast and Valve’s “road to HDR”.

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Ed Harris has a write up on the new features in Softimage XSI 5.0

C&VG have a feature on Unreal 4 that may interest readers following the next-gen graphics engine, which of course supports HDRI and a myriad other eye candy effects of the future! Also check out Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 page.

Supporting Computers has updated Artizen HDR with: Support for 11 digital camera raw file formats (cr2, crw, dcr, dng, erf, mrw, nef, orf, raf, pef, srf). These formats work with the Image Editor, Image Browser and HDR Merging tool. The addition of 4 new tone mapping operators. A major performance …

Sean O’Malley has added HDRI Helper to the AHDRIC distribution. This tool allows JPG sequences from any source (e.g., a manual capture) to be used with AHDRIC