{"id":15700,"date":"2009-01-29T20:19:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T20:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/01\/pixel-bender-contest-extended-new-examples.html"},"modified":"2009-01-29T20:19:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T20:19:55","slug":"pixel_bender_contest_extended_new_examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/pixel_bender_contest_extended_new_examples\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel Bender contest extended; new examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">To give developers more time to write killer code, the folks at NVIDIA have extended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottkelby.com\/blog\/2008\/archives\/1641\">Pixel Bender contest<\/a> deadline to Feb. 28.&#160; For more info (links to dev tools, etc.), <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/12\/create_with_pix.html\">see previous<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">By the way a couple of developers have pointed out that contest entry is restricted to US residents.&#160; I don&#8217;t know why that is, and hopefully it&#8217;s something that can get changed.&#160; (The same limitation has popped up in various Adobe contests.&#160; I don&#8217;t know why it does, but everyone agrees that it sucks &amp; would like to change it.) <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Elsewhere, Paul Burnett shared some more PB coolness: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad.com.au\/blog\/?p=139\">spinnable globe<\/a> (complete with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad.com.au\/blog\/?p=225\">source<\/a>) featuring a spherize filter + throw physics, as well as the bizarre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad.com.au\/blog\/?p=228\">Dancing Dudes<\/a> demo (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/dancingDudes.png\">screenshot<\/a>).&#160; (Me, I would&#8217;ve gone with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geico.com\/about\/commercials\/music\/\">vintage Rockwell<\/a> for the soundtrack.) <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">And one more thing: Adobe announced today that Flash Player 10&#8211;needed to run Pixel Bender in a browser&#8211;is now <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jd\/2009\/01\/platform_adoption_jan09.html\">installed on more than half the Net-connected PCs &amp; Mac in the world<\/a>, and that&#8217;s after just two months of availability.&#160; If you think browser-based image editors like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.photoshop.com\/\">Photoshop.com<\/a> are powerful now, wait til they really start embracing PB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To give developers more time to write killer code, the folks at NVIDIA have extended the Pixel Bender contest deadline to Feb. 28.&#160; For more info (links to dev tools, etc.), see previous. &#160; By the way a couple of developers have pointed out that contest entry is restricted to US residents.&#160; I don&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15700"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}