From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Mar 21 16:11:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26780 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:11:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26768 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kaput@whoever.com) Received: from whoever.com (oooooo@aeiusrD-02.aei.ca [206.186.204.152]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00457; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 19:09:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <351455E0.D0A634AC@whoever.com> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 19:05:52 -0500 From: KapuT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Don Lloyd Jr." CC: Studded , FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: FUG- FreeBSD User Group (Titanic?) References: <35142ACA.21C82270@earthling.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www.digital.com/info/alphaserver/products/render/titanic.html there you will find than they have runned on Alpha *not Intel* and there is link for Linux Don Lloyd Jr. wrote: > >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 -- *************************** kaput@whoever.com www.aei.ca/~malartre/ ICQ #4224434 IRCNet #quebec #wage #mid Undernet #FreeBSD Windows95 Unix-Version FreeBSD-2.2.6 *************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message