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by ykl 7y ago
Except Pixar, Sony, Weta, etc. are all Linux houses. MacOS has very little to no presence in the top-tier CG studios for actual CG work (we have a lot of MacBooks around for Keynote and video calls and whatnot though).
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by ykl 7y ago
Parent comment was edited after this post, so now this reply seems out-of-context. The parent comment originally made a comparison to Pixar and Disney Animation coming up with hair and water tech first and then coming up with stories for Br
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by ykl 7y ago
Rendering. :) I worked on a GPU-based real-time path tracer prototype at Pixar, which became the RTP renderer used for their in-house lookdev tools [1]. [1] http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/siggraph/2017/video&#x2F
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by ykl 7y ago
That's also a case where the tech came a while after the story. Our early snow tests on Frozen looked pretty terrible until the MPM simulator [1] came online later. [1] https://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/in
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by ykl 7y ago
In the cases of Brave and Moana at Pixar and Disney Animation respectively, the story definitely came before the tech was developed. I was an intern at Pixar during the production of Brave, and I worked on Moana, and I can say that in both
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by ykl 7y ago
Low-cost Aarch64 development machine! I run Aarch64 Fedora on a Pi 3B+ for porting personal projects to Aarch64 and for testing. When mainstream desktop ARM arrives (ARM Macs perhaps?), I’d like to be ready in case I have to make a switch f
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by ykl 7y ago
Where did they mention this?
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by ykl 8y ago
Ah, nevermind that guy. I really like how Codea looks, and I think the iOS Menu looks great. More importantly, it feels great to use.
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by ykl 8y ago
Hi! Karl Li from Disney Animation here; I can try to answer any questions about the dataset that folks may have.
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by ykl 8y ago
I love that the url for this is "pigs-in-spaaaaaace".
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by ykl 8y ago
There are several other parts too: Part 1: http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins.html Part 3: http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/20/ispc-volta-g
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by ykl 9y ago
No prob. I only know because someone had to point it out to me once before. :)
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by ykl 9y ago
Psst, I think you meant "Principal", not "Principle". :) http://www.dictionary.com/e/principal-vs-principle/
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by ykl 9y ago
This is one of my favorite graphics/rendering papers from 2017; great work from the entire DWA Moonray team! In addition to the main paper, there are some other materials that were presented at HPG and SIGGRAPH 2017 by the same team. H
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by ykl 9y ago
> It's also insane to announce this car with what boils down to a bunch of CGI! They had multiple real Roadsters at the announcements. You can see a red one in the main event video, and there are pictures of a silver one on Twitter
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by ykl 9y ago
I don't understand why this isn't more upvoted; the fact that they managed to build this thing at all is astonishing, let alone the high quality of the writeup and tooling built around it.
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by ykl 10y ago
*shoulders of giants. :)
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by ykl 10y ago
Uh.... VS has always been able to do C/C++ compilation. Like... for decades now? Just not with the standard Linux toolchain, but you've always been able to build C/C++ projects on Windows.
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by ykl 10y ago
This is a great article! I strongly believe that an understanding of how old school 3D rendering worked is an excellent thing for modern graphics programmers to have, to appreciate and understand where all of our fancy modern graphics APIs
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by ykl 10y ago
An excellent time to link to McMansion Hell's various guides on McMansions. Two good starting points are "What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture" [0] and "The 10 Circles of McMansion Hell" [1]. [0] http:/&#x2
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by ykl 10y ago
I was part of Cornell's Program of Computer Graphics lab for a few years. The lab still has the original physical Cornell Box model sitting around. That thing was wild to look at; even in real life, it doesn't look real because th
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by ykl 10y ago
Fair enough about Alembic. ILM and Pixar are very much Disney employees though, as in employees of the wider Walt Disney Company (which this page is for; the specific page for WDAS is here [1]). If you get a Silver Pass and your pay comes f
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by ykl 10y ago
Project: Originating and maintaining organization USD: Pixar OpenSubdiv: Pixar jss-api-gem: Pixar Munki: WDAS Reposado: WDAS SeExpr: WDAS Ptex: WDAS Partio: WDAS Dynamica: WDAS BRDF Explorer: WDAS OpenEXR: ILM Alembic: ILM and Sony Imagewor
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by ykl 10y ago
Distribution ray tracing is not exactly pathtracing. Proper physically correct pathtracing was formulated by James Kajiya in this paper: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2011/course/TDA361/2007&#x
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by ykl 10y ago
I think the canonical example is Zynga. [0] https://medium.com/halting-problem/zyngas-offices-now-worth-... [1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/zynga-to-sell-its-san-francisco-...
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by ykl 10y ago
Yes. Up until a few weeks ago, Theranos's board consisted of mostly ex-Pentagon and ex-Senators and such types [0]. Theranos did not have a medical advisory board until about a month ago, apparently. Contrast with Elon Musk and SpaceX.
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by ykl 10y ago
The key difference though, is Elon Musk brought in people that did have domain expertise to fill in the gaps. The overall vision is Elon Musk's, but he was smart enough to bring in industry veterans to help execute on that vision. Ther
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by ykl 11y ago
On a total aside, I wonder what VFX house they got to do this, because it all looks great. Usually these random corporate concept videos all look really cheesy.
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by ykl 11y ago
I didn't say universities shouldn't have hospitals. I was just pointing out that it's another field that universities are highly involved/invested in.
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by ykl 11y ago
Not to mention vast hospital networks~ in a number of cities, universities run major or even the primary hospital network in the city.

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