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You can't point to animation and special effects software as a major win for open-source software, there is absolutely no doubt that every time you gasp at a breath-taking escape by Indy or grin at a particularly clever visual bit of fun in Ratatouille, you're appreciating the power of Linux.
1 posted on 08/23/2008 3:11:38 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
The simple fact is that *IX is just far better suited than Windows for the sort of serious data crunching that visual effects takes... And that includes MacOS. As an example (though not related to visual effects), the company I work for uses a program called "Sawmill" to take syslog files and put the raw internet access data into usable form for security and Internet access trend analysis. When using the Windows version, generating the reports would take nearly 3 days (52 hours). Using the exact same hardware, the Linux version of Sawmill generates the exact same report in just over 10 hours.

Mark

2 posted on 08/23/2008 3:25:08 AM PDT by MarkL (Al Gore: The Greenhouse Gasbag! (heard on Bob Brinker's Money Talk))
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Where’s that Linux Ping List?

Ping!


3 posted on 08/23/2008 3:29:24 AM PDT by Big Giant Head (I should change my tagline to "Big Giant penguin on my Head")
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
My colleague Eric Lai discovered recently...

It has been this way for about eight years.

6 posted on 08/23/2008 9:12:39 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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10 posted on 08/24/2008 1:35:25 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

So, the question is are SFX a creation of the animator at his station, deciding what the visual will be, or are they the result of the number-crunching farms that render the final image?

Different applications, different needs.


11 posted on 08/24/2008 1:42:21 PM PDT by LexBaird (Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
The article mentions RenderMan as a Pixar program - and Pixar is, of course, the property that bought Steve Jobs his Disney stock.

It can be no surprise that Pixar was using some form of Unix, since Jobs was already committed to Unix when he left - was pushed out of - Apple.


12 posted on 08/24/2008 2:30:58 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
You can't point to animation and special effects software as a major win for open-source software, there is absolutely no doubt that every time you gasp at a breath-taking escape by Indy or grin at a particularly clever visual bit of fun in Ratatouille, you're appreciating the power of Linux.

Say again?

14 posted on 08/25/2008 4:02:57 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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