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So awesome! I had a similar reaction to Shake—I first created an ANSI C command-line based compositor that read in and interpreted scripts. A year or so later I

So awesome! I had a similar reaction to Shake—I first created an ANSI C command-line based compositor that read in and interpreted scripts. A year or so later I abandoned it in favor of a Mac app with a node-based GUI that compiled down to GPU instructions that I brought to market with a partner. Also just want to highlight Ron's book The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, which is valuable to this day!

philipkglass 2y ago
I bought The Art and Science of Digital Compositing at Powell's Technical Books in Portland a year before I started my capstone project. It and Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice 2nd Edition in C were my main references. There was much less open source code to look at back then, and it wasn't as easily searchable either. Working on graphics, I could usually (though not always) resolve an ambiguous directive by trying different approaches and looking at the output. Does the result look like colored snow? Does the whole image now have a magenta tint? I probably need to try a different interpretation (or just fix my bug).