Great article. Despite thinking I knew a lot about Pixar's life and times, for me the surprises were: * Pixar pioneered ray-tracing, but it just wasn't fast en

Great article. Despite thinking I knew a lot about Pixar's life and times, for me the surprises were: * Pixar pioneered ray-tracing, but it just wasn't fast enough for production use. * The Pixar hardware (a) started out as a frame store (not a 3d workstation), (b) was based on transputers, and (c) renderman was named after hardware (i.e. like a Discman or Walkman). * Luxo Jr. was not created with Renderman -- Tin Toy was the first Renderman film.