Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Behind the Scenes

Posted by michael on from the these-are-the-penguins-you-are-looking-for dept.

JosefK writes: "Film & Video is running an interesting and fairly in-depth article on the technology that's been used by Peter Jackson's crew and WETA for the production of the Lord of the Rings. From satellite video feeds for overseeing remote shoots, to the development of WETA's Massive program for depicting large scale battle scenes with tens and hundreds of thousands of "agents" (and it runs on Linux!), the article covers the gamut of the interesting things Peter Jackson's been doing Down Under." And Salon is running a lengthy article on the increasing use of Linux in the special effects industry.

1 of 184 comments (clear)

  1. Once again Quake to the rescue by PeterMiller · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the Salon Article:
    "At Dreamworks, Leonard laments that the thing that drove graphics card performance on Linux in the early days of the migration was the first-person shooter computer game Quake. Gamers who were fans of Linux and Quake hacked on Linux until Quake ran smoothly."

    This once agian proves that the Quake engine was the primary driver of technology over the last 7 years.

    What will take us to the next level of computing? Why, Quake 4 of course.