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This article is from 2013. Why is it getting attention now?

• tomvbussel 11y ago
  This web page is from this month, not 2013. They published a paper on the architecture of Hyperion in 2013, but that never received a lot of attention as it appeared out of the blue and it was published at a 'minor' conference. As most people thought that Disney was still using RenderMan, people never realized that they were actually using that architecture in a production renderer. A few months ago FXGuide published an article on Hyperion and in the past few months there have been a few talks by Disney on it, but this is the first public article by Disney specifically about their renderer. And besides, there aren't a whole lot of discussions on Hacker News on offline rendering, so this article is a good opportunity to discuss graphics.
  • cbsmith 11y ago
    Thanks. I had heard about it last year, and so thought it was all old news.