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LOTR Special Effects at OSCON

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-see dept.

gnat writes "The IT Director for Weta Digital, Peter Jackson's company doing the digital effects for the Lord of the Rings movies, is keynoting at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. They use a ton of Linux and Perl." FWIW I believe Hemos and I are speaking too, but I'm much more interested in seeing this LotR thing.

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  1. Perl? by Fastball · · Score: 5, Funny
    use LOTR::Ringwraith

    Get that module to CPAN stat! I want it! ;)

  2. I'm glad Taco & Hemos have made up... by schwatoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I didn't realise they weren't speaking.

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  3. Gandolf did look a bit like RMS by JeffGB · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always thought that Gandolf looked a bit like Richard Stallman.
    Maybe it was just the beard.
    Lord of the Token Ring

  4. Re:O'Reilly conferences are laughably expensive by spaten-optimator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, it was either charge $1024, or $512. Like true computer geeks, they can only think in powers of two. Methinks the organizers have read Snow Crash one too many times.

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  5. Perl? What for? by prockcore · · Score: 3, Funny
    I wonder what they were using Perl for.

    Then it hit me, they must be using this to replay dvd versions of production tests under linux :)