Ruman & Antor night vision - fun

Image based rendering

For the complete animation click here
For some reason the color is not smooth..

OpenGL...

OpenGL provides the programmer with an interface to graphics hardware. It is a powerful, low-level rendering library, available on all major platforms, with wide hardware support. It is designed for use in any graphics application, from games to modeling to CAD. Many games, such as id Software’s Doom 3, use OpenGL for their core graphics-rendering engine.

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OpenGL stands for “Open Graphics Library.” “Open” is used because OpenGL is an open standard, meaning that many companies are able to contribute to the development. It does not mean that OpenGL is open source.

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OpenGL was originally developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) as a multi-purpose, platform-independent graphics API. Since 1992, the development of OpenGL has been overseen by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB), which is made up of major graphics vendors and other industry leaders, currently consisting of 3DLabs, ATI, Dell, Evans & Sutherland, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Matrox, NVIDIA, SGI, Sun Microsystems, and Silicon Graphics. The role of the ARB is to establish and maintain the OpenGL specification, which dictates which features must be included when one is developing an OpenGL distribution.

source: Begining OpenGL Game Programming

Terracotta Army

The Terracotta Army (Chinese: 兵馬俑; Hanyu Pinyin: Bīng Mǎ Yǒng; literally "Soldier and Horse Figures") is a collection of 8,099 life-size terra cotta figures of warriors and horses located in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (秦始皇陵; Qín Shǐ Huáng Líng). The figures were discovered in 1974 near Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China.


More about Terracotta Army can be found at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army

Xi'an, Shannxi, China

Xi'an (Chinese: 西安; Hanyu Pinyin: Xī'ān; Wade-Giles: Hsi-An; literal meaning: "Western Peace"; former name Sian), is the capital of Shaanxi province in China and a sub-provincial city. Known as one of the most important cities in Chinese history, Xi'an is listed as one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China because it has been the capital of 13 dynasties such as Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang. Xi'an is the eastern end of the Silk Road. The city has more than 3,100 years of history. It was called Chang'an (长安/長安 pinyin: Cháng'ān), meaning "Perpetual Peace", in ancient times.

Xi'an is the largest and most developed city in the central to northwestern part of China and is ranked among the 10 largest cities in the nation.

Source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an

Family album

My room: Cousine Rizu and Tanvir


Tanvir - keya style hai yar... kuttaa maraa



A piece of land my uncle bought right in front of our grandparents house - its now a vegetable garden :)


My room - My sister wearing some kind of borkha (religious cloth to cover the whole body) for fun


Grandparents house: A recent arival


Grandparents House: Cousines - Mayesha and Tanima


Little Mayesha


My sister- Shumona, Mayesha and Tanima



Grandparents house: Little Cousines


Grandparents house: she is youngest of us cousines..



My house in Dhaka: Another of my younger cousine



Grandparents house: My mother and her aunt- she spends most of her time in India


Grandparents house: My sister and our grand-mother. In the background inside the house is one of my aunts.

snow festival with new friends :)