For the 2025 edition of the BCC Innovation Festival, we’re creating a little game, that will act as a sort of on-boarding for people looking to apply. In this game, a friendly robot will ask the player to solve some riddles and find some objects. This must not interfere with the audio stream, as users […]
Read more »The Gazzetta di Parma, which is arguably the oldest newspaper in continuous operation in the world, ran an article about us and about the BCC Arte & Cultura project. Big thanks to the journalist, who did a great job in getting our ramblings into a coherent and understandable form!
Read more »Debunking a YouTube video on the Alhambra
Read more »Holo Lab released this new Blender add-on that does a pretty job at reducing most photogrammetry models: https://github.com/HoloLabInc/ModerateWeightReductionTools It does fail on the more topologically challenged ones, but that is to be expected. As an example this 25MB model: Was reduced to this, which is just 295kB. I did remove the black background by hand, […]
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We can finally talk about this! (If you look at the tags you might find a few related stealth posts) For the past year or so, we’ve been working on the cataloguing and digitalization project of the art and cultural heritage assets of the BCC ICCREA group. Overall 59 banks and 109 works were included. […]
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We were interviewed by StoryTime, which is itself an interesting initiative to promote business and professionals in Emilia-Romagna. They were really friendly, and really put us at ease, which is not easy, we’re a skittish bunch 😀
Read more »Creative Commons just launched the new TAROCH initiative, which is closely aligned with our goals. Go read the founding declaration: https://creativecommons.org/2024/11/01/creative-commons-launches-taroch-coalition-for-open-access-to-cultural-heritage/
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On Tuesday (2024-10-29) we were interviewed by Story Time, and we broadcast on Radio Canale Italia yesterday. The interviewer was truly great, and everyone was simultaneously very friendly and very professional, we’d recommend them to anyone looking to promote their activity. In about a week we’ll be given the video and we’ll be able to […]
Read more »This case https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/10/bologna-court-of-appeal-confirms-that.html is consistent with the Italian legislation. We hold that no image right should hold in perpetuity, and we really don’t understand which principle the Italian legislation is upholding. The simplest interpretation is that they think that they will create profits for cultural heritage institutions, which certainly could use funding. It doesn’t seem […]
Read more »Today we had to give a video presentation for the technically unannounced BCC Arte & Cultura project, and that involved a whole lot of Blender animation renders. One of them, a long one that took hours in Cycles, crashed at the very end. We were exporting in mp4 format, which is easy to import in […]
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