From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Mar 21 14:59:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16424 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:59:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bistro.datasoup.com (root@datasoup.com [207.204.0.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16295 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:59:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@lloyd.org) Received: from [207.204.0.99] (circle-o-life.lloyd.org [207.204.0.99]) by bistro.datasoup.com (8.8.7/8.8.7/99.7-spamfree) with ESMTP id PAA13899; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:38:15 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <35142F76.1F542942@dal.net> References: <35142ACA.21C82270@earthling.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:03:36 -0700 To: Studded From: "Don Lloyd Jr." Subject: Re: FUG- FreeBSD User Group (Titanic?) Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Noah Oak Pratt wrote: > >> I'm probably just completely ignorant, but could someone please explain >> this reference to Linux in association the Titanic? > > My understanding is that some or all of the computer graphics rendering >was done on linux. If you've seen the movie you probably noticed that a >lot of the long shots with people on the deck (especially the >"helicopter" shots) are all computer graphics. > >Doug Hmmmm, I'll have to dig out my videotapes from the cable & FOX specials on the Titanic... If my memory serves me correctly, Digital Domain (who did all the computer-generated sequences) used Macintosh and SGI's to render the different scenes. Don ..just a small fan of the titanic Movie.....only seen the movie 5 times, my finance has seen it 6 times, and I've taped ALL the TV/Cable specials on the movie... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message