Actually, we've got a linux driver, and some of our programs ported over to Linux. You can use the board as a mouse and do annotations. Take a look at our software features webpage:
Actually, we've (SMART Technologies) been doing this for the last ten years, Mimeo put out their first product June 1999. We were the ones primarily responsible for putting interactive whiteboards into schools, and are the leader in virtually all markets for this technology, especially in the educational markets.
Our products are more expensive, but we've been working on these things for a long time. We feel that this experience has led to a quality product.
...as do compiler writers. Look at the standard set of benchmarks for any processor/compiler and you'll see special compile tags for benchmarks testing. They've gone as far as making special instructions used only for benchmarks.
I've used OpenFX to edit and throw together some 3d models for a demo, grabbing them off of various modelling sites from free directories, customizing them (mostly cutting 95% of the detail out - I was going for real time 3d) and then exporting them in an ascii format that I could cobble together a reader for from scratch. I have a small (0.5 of a drafting course) amount of experience with AutoCAD. This was SO easy! And the program had a load of other features I didn't even touch. Now, I've never used Blender, so I don't know how it compares. Have you looked at OpenFX?
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Actually, we've got a linux driver, and some of our programs ported over to Linux. You can use the board as a mouse and do annotations. Take a look at our software features webpage:
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http://smarttech.com/products/smartboard/software
-Tim Cowley,
Software Developer,
SMART Technologies
Actually, we've (SMART Technologies) been doing this for the last ten years, Mimeo put out their first product June 1999. We were the ones primarily responsible for putting interactive whiteboards into schools, and are the leader in virtually all markets for this technology, especially in the educational markets.
Our products are more expensive, but we've been working on these things for a long time. We feel that this experience has led to a quality product.
-Tim Cowley,
Software Developer,
SMART Technologies
...as do compiler writers. Look at the standard set of benchmarks for any processor/compiler and you'll see special compile tags for benchmarks testing. They've gone as far as making special instructions used only for benchmarks.
Nope. Hasn't hit me. Haven't heard about it.
Just say NO to closed-source products.
I've used OpenFX to edit and throw together some 3d models for a demo, grabbing them off of various modelling sites from free directories, customizing them (mostly cutting 95% of the detail out - I was going for real time 3d) and then exporting them in an ascii format that I could cobble together a reader for from scratch. I have a small (0.5 of a drafting course) amount of experience with AutoCAD. This was SO easy! And the program had a load of other features I didn't even touch. Now, I've never used Blender, so I don't know how it compares. Have you looked at OpenFX?
...and some kind of spacing... it just looks like random garbage with big circles thrown in.