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The software developer OpenCities Map is pleased to announce the availability of OpenCities Map CONNECT Edition Update 17.1 (10.17.01.025) is a full-featured GIS designed to address the unique and challenging needs of organizations that map, plan, design, build, and operate the world's infrastructure.

The Chaos Group team is pleased to announce the availability of V-Ray Next 4.20.00 for Autodesk 3ds Max. The long-awaited major update to its production renderer, following five months in public beta. New ‘Scene Intelligence’ features, new V-Ray GPU rendering architecture, overall speed boosts.

Renderer software company Chaos has revealed V-Ray 6 Update 2 (6.20.00) for Autodesk 3ds Max, the latest version of the production renderer. The update adds native MaterialX support, a new bridge to Chaos’s Enscape real-time renderer, a unified light and camera lister, and updates to Chaos Scatter and V-Ray GPU.

Several of Kaija Saariaho’s works are named after natural phenomena that serve as a starting point to her compositional process. Composed in 1998, Neiges was inspired by various qualities of snow and explores instrumental languages and colors similar to those found in her earlier works. On the present album the piece is heard in its never-before recorded version for twelve cellos, performed by the cellists of the Oslo Philharmonic. Another source of inspiration has been medieval literature, which formed a point of departure for Graal Théâtre, the first concerto Saariaho wrote, as well as for the recent Vers toi qui es si loin (2018).

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Chaos Group is pleased to announce the availability of V-Ray Next 4.00.01 for SketchUp. With this new release a few clicks, you can create high-quality ray-traced visuals using one of the world’s most widely used design programs.

Chaos Group is pleased to announce the availability of V-Ray Next 4.00.01 for Rhino, the first smart renderer made for designers. Tailored tools have expanded the core capabilities of Rhino and Grasshopper, linking photorealistic rendering, scene intelligence and asset management into a powerful new workflow that centralizes the design/visualization experience.

Thomas Dolby, the iconic '80s star whose smash hits 'She Blinded Me With Science' and 'Hyperactive' helped define the MTV generation/revolution, will break his 20-year silence with A Map of the Floating City. The album, featuring appearances by special guest artists Mark Knopfler, Regina Spektor, Natalie MacMaster, Bruce Woolley, Imogen Heap and Eddi Reader, will be will be released on Lost Toy People Records as a physical CD, and in a special Deluxe Edition featuring a second disc of instrumentals and bonus tracks. Of the album, which is divided into three parts, Dolby says, "The new songs are organic and very personal. A Map of the Floating City is a travelogue across three imaginary continents: In Amerikana I'm reflecting with affection on the years I spent living in the U.S.A., and my fascination with its roots music. Urbanoia is a dark place, a little unsettling… I'm not a city person. And in Oceanea I return to my natural home on the windswept coastline."

Examines the rise and fall of the UK's greatest ports. The programme spans the first international traders arriving on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, through the arrival of the Romans, Elizabeth I's extension of British territory, and the huge impact of the tea trade and the Industrial Revolution.

The Chaos Group team is pleased to announce the availability of V-Ray 3.60.01 for Modo, is seamlessly integrated and optimized for both CPUs and GPUs, using whatever an artist picks to deliver high-quality imagery and animation quickly, even when working with complex 3D scenes.