[geeks] Nvidia buys out Exluna

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:11:08PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:

> >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

> 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.

I didn't say that BMRT was used on every piece of ABL (A Bug's Life).
Pixar developed software that allowed them to mix the two within the
same frame, and this was used for numerous scenes where Pixar wanted
acurate glass effects without having to resort to the usual
workarounds due to being a scanline renderer.
 
> One of the things I have heard is that nVidia wants to do real-time 
> global illumination in hardware.

Woah!!!  That would absolutely rock.  That is the kind of far ahead
thinking I wish more companies would use.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd