Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:41:52 PDT From: "Ron Smith" <ronnetron@hotmail.com> To: tymbrwlf@bellsouth.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: High-End Graphics Message-ID: <LAW-F243yDnSI4nHp4P0000525a@hotmail.com>
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Yep! In fact nearly *all* of the production class 3D animation and special FX programs got their start on UNIX platforms (SGI and SUN usually) because the OS was/is more stable and friendly to multiple processing and handling *large* memory and disk space footprints. I think the trend to port these pakages from SGI, et. al., to LINUX... let's say will increase because of the lowered cost in these OpenOS boxes, and the fact that these packages make use of many of these boxes tied together to do distributed tasks such as scene rendering. As I see it, the faster these packages port over to LINUX, the faster we'll see the FreeBSD versions :). R.S. >From: "TymbrWlf" <tymbrwlf@bellsouth.net> >To: "FreeBSD Newbies" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> >Subject: RE: High-End Graphics >Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:55:56 -0500 > >I was just curious because I know that there are High-end 3D programs that >run on UNIX and I was wondering if anyone has had the chance to see if >these >programs can run on FreeBSD. Blender is pretty cool but kinda primitive >(no-offense meant) compared to 3dsMax, Maya, Softimage, Lightwave, etc. I >know that GIMP is a rough equal to Photoshop, but the 3D stuff seems kinda >sparse... > >Larry Hawk > ><< smime.p7s >> ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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