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MyPaint and GEGL: porting evaluation begins

MyPaint and GEGL: porting evaluation begins

GIMP and MyPaint projects have a closer relationship than one might assume. And there’s a chance they could get to the next stage.

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Google Summer of Code 2012: digital media all the way

Google Summer of Code 2012: digital media all the way

Last night the stream of people willing to find out what projects were picked for Google Summer of Code 2012 brought Google's servers to their knees.

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Corel DRAW X6 file format subdued by libcdr

Corel DRAW X6 file format subdued by libcdr

Two months ago we posted an announcement of a new project to deliver a library and a converter from Corel DRAW files to SVG. It's time for an update.

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openNURBS 5.0 gets support for Rhino 5

openNURBS 5.0 gets support for Rhino 5

Bob McNeel notified us that he released openNURBS 5.0, an open source C++/.NET toolkit for reading and writing models in Rhino file format (3DM).

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Mesh gradients in Cairo now official

Mesh gradients in Cairo now official

Did you ever wonder if free software such as Inkscape is going to get mesh gradients for impressive photorealistic graphics? We have some good news for you.

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New hardware acceleration code landed to upstream GEGL

New hardware acceleration code landed to upstream GEGL

Work on finalizing OpenCL based rendering and processing with GEGL has landed to upstream Git repository. This will be available in the next release of GEGL.

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What multimedia projects participate in Google Summer of Code 2012?

What multimedia projects participate in Google Summer of Code 2012?

Google announced participating mentoring organizations for this year's run of Summer of Code.

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Some insights on Google Summer of Code

Some insights on Google Summer of Code

Yesterday Google announced Summer of Code 2012 program that will run for the 8th time and attract hundreds of students from around the world to improve free and open source software. We've collected some insights for you.

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What’s up with DWG adoption in free software?

What’s up with DWG adoption in free software?

Having been asked recently about reasons for lack of DWG support in free software, we started digging and very nearly fell into a pitch black abyss.

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DSP programming language Faust is getting LV2 support

DSP programming language Faust is getting LV2 support

Albert Gräf released first public version of faust-lv2 — an attempt to mate Faust, a DSP programming language, with LV2, an API for effects and virtual instruments.

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