Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:23:19 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Rick K <biojavachicago@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry?? Message-ID: <3CA76227.3010501@owt.com> References: <20020331191939.93845.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rick K wrote: > --- Nick Lozinsky <nl3481@wi.rr.com> wrote: > >>Subject: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry?? >> >>>Hi, >>> I have read on the Internet that FreeBSD is >>> >>used in making the effects >> >>>of the movie, The Matrix. Is that true? >>> >>> Are there any movies whose effects are made >>> >>using freebsd?? >> >>>If so,does that mean that an ordinary PC can also >>> >>produce such effects if >> >>>the PC is running freebsd and the apporopiate >>> >>hard/software? >> >>As far as I know, IRIX was used and is used to make >>most of the SGI for >>games and movies. Because IRIX is a part of SGI's >>supercomputers, it is >>directly used. >> >>Later >> > > I think FreeBSD was used for "The Matrix", although > for a long time IRIX was THE system used. "Phantom > Menace", "Perfect Storm", "XMen", and "Gladiator" are > a few recent movies that used IRIX. See the press release at http://www.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-1.html Kent > > Linux is starting to replace IRIX. I think "Shrek" was > done with Linux. "Lord of the Rings" was done on SGI > hardware running Red Hat Linux. I've read that > LucasFilm is going to Linux too. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover > http://greetings.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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