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May 16, 2008
The Pixel Bender Exchange is now live!
Waay easier to post on than the Pixel Bender gallery wiki page...
We've primed the pump with some of the filters from the install of the toolkit and we'll add some more from the team soon.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=26
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May 14, 2008
Astro Beta and new Pixel Bender Toolkit now available!
Big news tonight!
Finally, you don't have to just hear about Pixel Bender Filters and play with them in the toolkit, now you can actually try some of them out! The beta of Astro is now available. Check out the demos to see Pixel Bender Shaders running on images, vectors and video in real time!
Also, today we released a new Pixel Bender Toolkit on our new Pixel Bender wiki pages. What is new in this release? The new name, obviously, but also some bug fixes and some new features (check out the preferences dialog box!)
More info soon!
May 05, 2008
Hydra is now Pixel Bender!
Hydra is an awesome name for a language like the one we created. At the very beginning, Jonathan Shekter came up with it as a code name for this cool language that could run on different kinds of hardware efficiently. The problem is that it's a great name for any kind of technology that does multiple things, so it is pretty popular. We didn't want to confuse folks, so we worked with the Adobe branding team to come up with a new name that we could use moving forward. That name is Pixel Bender (tm).
So from now on, if you hear me say "hydra" in a 1:1 conversation (sorry, conference talks are out), you can call me on it and I'll give you a cool limited-edition hydra pin (while supplies last).
Along with the name change of the language, we're also changing the name of the "AIF Toolkit" to be the "Pixel Bender Toolkit." The file extensions will also change. We should be posting a new version of the toolkit soon with these changes.
very obscure reference/fact
It is only partially true that the name Pixel Bender won out over another internal favorite "Shektran" because I was hoping to finagle a visit to Rough Draft Studios or The Curiosity Company (joke).