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ILM Now Capable of Realtime CGI
Sandman1971 writes "According to the Sydney Morning Herald, specialFX company ILM is now capable of doing realtime CGI, allowing actors and directors to see rough CGI immediately after a scene is filmed. Actors on the latest Star Wars film watch instant replays of their battles with CG characters. ILM CTO Cliff Plumer attributes this amazing leap to the increase in processing power and a migration from using Silicon Graphics RISC-Unix workstations to Intel-based Dell systems running Linux."
...my webserver has been doing realtime CGI for years.
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
We have Real-time CGI Porn?
Where ever you go, there you are.
Maybe it IS realtime, but the actors just don't have the skill to watch themselves on a monitor WHILE acting, so they use the obvious 'i'll watch when i'm done method'
This will probably help on release dates for movies.
We'll get to see Episode III sooner!
Its a pitty they haven't got one of those to write the script!
Steve.
well, I guess they need to get that jar jar binks death scene juuuuust right.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
I hope this brings even more realism and depth of character to Jar Jar.
Trolling is a art,
would be to develop a program that re-writes Lucas's inane dialogue in real time...
Now if only that could help Lucas get realtime feedback that his plots suck.
Post your server's url to slashdot, and we'll see just how realtime it is.
Dark Helmet - "What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?"
Col Sandurz - "Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now."
Dark Helmet - "What happened to then?"
Col Sandurz - "We passed then?"
Dark Helmet - "When?"
Col Sandurz - "Just now. We're at now, now."
Dark Helmet - "Go back to then."
Col Sandurz - "When?"
Dark Helmet - "Now."
Col Sandurz - "Now?"
Dark Helmet - "Now."
Col Sandurz - "I can't."
Dark Helmet - "Why?"
Col Sandurz - "We missed it."
Dark Helmet - "When?"
Col Sandurz - "Just now."
Dark Helmet - "When will then be now?"
Col Sandurz - "Soon."
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
Intel-based Dell systems running Linux
So conflicted...Intel bad...Linux good...Dell ambivalent...
"In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user. You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total.loser." -Weird Al
Now that's Cost Savings!
This will be resloved with the new nVidia GeForce FMXP 41000x It's supposed to be 3rd quarter this year. It's supposed to totally smoke anything ATI has right now, with photographic quality and with at least 6 times the Q3 fps. And it has outputs to a film projector. And built in lasers. And 7.1 Audio onboard. And a soda/Pizza exhaust port.
....and it's supposed to be profitable.
Who is this "Poster" guy and why does he own all of my comments?!?
I actually work with the guy who did those! They were done by Touch Animation AFAIK - now defunct. Apart from the fact that The Day Today's gfx didn't have a huge budget, they were also done quite a long time ago now - still excellent and groundbreakingly satirical (can gfx be satirical? you bet).
On the Partridge point, you're forgetting my combat-based gameshow that runs on digital TV.
That was classic intercourse!
mid 1990's - NT will replace Unix
late 1990's - Linux will replace Windows
2000's - Linux will replace proprietary Unix
None of these have happened yet. I doubt that the last will ever happen.
oops missed one:
late 1980's to current day - Apple is dying
Pls mod down parent as overrated - it's an opinion based on an emotional response rather than reason.
You may think me a tired, old, cynic. I'd have to disagree about the tired bit.
ILM CTO Cliff Plumer attributes this amazing leap to the increase in processing power and a migration from using Silicon Graphics RISC-Unix workstations to Intel-based Dell systems running Linux.
Well, I hope all you open-source advocates are happy now. You worked to develop Linux and other open source software because it was "cool," and I'm sure you all had a great time making it more and more powerful. I'll bet you never gave one minute of thought to the fact that the software you were producing might make it easier to make those awful, awful movies, did you?
Well, it's too late now. I just hope you're satisfied!
When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.