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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: cc-bizcom AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Cc-bizcom] CGI & Open Source
  • Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:04:00 +0100

Slashdot article on the advantage of Open Source for CGI houses. Even Disney
are dumping traditional animation in favour of CGI at the moment:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/22/1721254

'If your competitors need hair, they'll write hair software, no problem.
Another quote from the Pixar RenderMan user's group, this one by a RenderMan
developer (paraphrased): "this is based on the subsurface scattering papers
from a couple years ago. Everybody does this, based on those papers." Nope, I
don't see strategic advantage there: I see waste.'

- Rob.




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