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Rumoured were going on in past few weeks, about the coming of Google Drive, the cloud storage from search giant, Google. There were alots of things coming, many leaks were made. Finally, Google end all those by introducing the Google Drive. In the blog post Google announced this today.

Google Drive is extension of Google Docs in Cloud, to store and collaborates the things in real time. User can create documents, spreadsheet etc and share it on the cloud. They are providing many types of files  to share on the cloud including the images, videos, docs, PDFs, Photoshop files, illustrators documents etc.  These files can be shared and accesses from any device.

Google Drive is offering a free space of 5GB, while one can extend by upgrading  to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month and 1TB for $49.99/month.

Google Drive is available to get installed on PC, Mac and there is app for Android devices while for the iPad and iPhones, iOS device the apps will come soon.

Some Cool features of Google Drive : 

Taj Mahal (ताज महल), is the symbol of love. It  is a white Marble mausoleum located in Agra, INDIA. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. For more info read wikipedia.

Here, we are going to develop basic structure of Taj Mahal in computer graphics. In this tutorial I will tell how to make Taj like structure using the OpenGL. We will develop simple structure, not exactly same as it looks in real but some what idealistic. This project is mainly mean for the VTU Computer Graphics mini-projects.




Taj Mahal is basically a structure with many minars and gumbazz. We will use the simple objects like spheres and cubes to build these units. First for the main part we use box or a large cube and then point small sphere over them. Thereafter, we place a small cubical structure with very low height, a egg like sphere is also placed over it. Similarly,we going to place four long minars over each four corners.

We are also developing the wired framed structure of the Taj as well. In the wired framed Taj, the large cube block will go transparent and the two tombs will be place in the middle with small cubes.

Lets start coding!



/* Draw the bottom box */
glPushMatrix();
glScaled(0.8,0.04,0.8);
glTranslatef(0.0,-30.2,0.0);
glutSolidCube(7.0);
glPopMatrix();

    //main cube
    glTranslatef(0.0,-.6,0.0);
glutSolidCube(2.0);

//main gumbazz
glPushMatrix();
glScaled(0.8,1.0,0.8);
glTranslatef(0.0,1.5,0.0);
glutSolidSphere(0.8,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

glTranslatef(0.0,1.0,0.0);
glScaled(1.2,0.25,1.2);
glutSolidCube(0.9);

//gumbaz pointer

glPushMatrix();
glScaled(0.03,0.5,0.03);
glTranslatef(0.0,10.8,0.0);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//Minars
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(2,-1.9,2);
glScaled(.2,10.5,.2);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//minar's sphere
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(2,0.8,2);
glScaled(0.3,1.5,0.3);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//Minars
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(-2,-1.9,2);
glScaled(.2,10.5,.2);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//minar's sphere
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(-2,0.8,2);
glScaled(0.3,1.5,0.3);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();


//Minars
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(-2,-1.9,-2);
glScaled(.2,10.5,.2);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//minar's sphere
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(-2,0.8,-2);
glScaled(0.3,1.5,0.3);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//Minars
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(2,-1.9,-2);
glScaled(.2,10.5,.2);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();
 
//minar's sphere
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(2,0.8,-2);
glScaled(0.3,1.5,0.3);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//short Minars
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(0.6,-0.5,0.6);
glScaled(.2,11.5,.2);
glutSolidSphere(0.2,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//short minar's sphere
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(0.6,0.5,0.6);
glScaled(0.3,1.5,0.3);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//short Minars
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(0.6,-0.5,-0.6);
glScaled(.2,11.5,.2);
glutSolidSphere(0.2,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

glScaled(0.3,1.5,0.3);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//short Minars
glPushMatrix();
glPopMatrix();

//short Minars
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(-0.6,-0.5,-0.6);
glScaled(.2,11.5,.2);
glutSolidSphere(0.2,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//short minar's sphere
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(-0.6,0.5,-0.6);
glScaled(0.3,1.5,0.3);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//short Minars
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(-0.6,-0.5,0.6);
glScaled(.2,11.5,.2);
glutSolidSphere(0.2,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

//short minar's sphere
glPushMatrix();
glTranslated(-0.6,0.5,0.6);
glScaled(0.3,1.5,0.3);
glutSolidSphere(0.4,80,120);
glPopMatrix();

For More projects and tutorial Visit OpenGL Projects .

This Articles is also cross posted on OpenGL Projects .

Ajinkya Rahane became the first batsman in IPL 2012 to score the century.  Rajasthan Royals batsman scored 103 not out against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the match no 18th  played at Chinnaswamy Stadium, in the 5th edition of IPL. He hits 12 fours and 5 sixes to reach the milestone.

Apple's Voice assistant-"Siri" was introduced along with the iPhone 4s. It then only supports the English language but later other language support were added to it.

Currently, Apple provides the Siri  Supports in following languages - English, French, German and Japanese. The Support for Japanese was announced recently when Apple launched the third generation iPad, which is called as New iPad. While Apple is thinking to add Siri support for Italian, Chinese, Korean and Spanish languages later this year.

Coming to the hacking part, Kunal Kaul provides the Siri that can speak in Hindi with his hack. Kunal has used  his Google API server which is connected by the Siri to make interaction in Hindi. Problem only is that Siri is able to answere in the Hindi but question that need to ask to it, must be in English. He also so the assitant for the Arabic language. See the video for both.

Siri interacting in Hindi

Siri Also Speaks Arabic

Few of the Good games in Computer graphics project done using the OpenGL platform.

1. Snake Xenzia : The popular mobile game in nokia phone is implemented where snakes grow by eating the food. Users are allowed to move the snake  with the keyboard interaction as like they do in the phone game.
2. Memory block : This game is to test the memory of the user. 5 X 4 Blocks are made with each block hides some figure under it. User choose a block to see the figure if he selects the same in consecutive chance then the both block get opened.  
3. Ludo board game : The popular board game of ludo is implemented but here for simplicity only the two player game has been developed. user can spin the dice when it's their turn and choose the button to play the system automatically make the turn for the user.
4. Mancala board game : Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called "sowing" games, or "count-and-capture" games, which describes the game-play. There are many version of this game one of the simplest version is developed. This project also includes the sounds when the use coins. 
5. The edge game : Two level game is developed where user have to take the point from the start to the end without touching the boundary. The two simple path has been developed. More path can be added to make the project more lengthier and complex.

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