[geeks] Nvidia buys out Exluna

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>I wonder exactly why Nvidia wanted them.  Clearly Exluna does
>somethings related to Cg, but not in real time or anything.
>
>For those who don't know what Exluna is, they are a company that
>produces 2 rendering packages.  One is BMRT, which has been mentioned
>more than once by various people here.  This package was used in A
>Bug's Life, and other films.  The other product is Entropy, which is
>faster, better, and the commercial, not free product from the company
>(and I don't know what it has been used in).
>
>  
>
Umm, Joshua are you sure Pixar (the guys that make PRMan, the original 
RenderMan renderer) used BMRT (a RenderMan knockoff) to render A Bug's 
Life? Just doesn't make sense to me.

One of the things I have heard is that nVidia wants to do real-time 
global illumination in hardware.

shawn