From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 11:23:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E2737B405 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:23:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09366; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:23:21 -0800 Message-ID: <3CA76227.3010501@owt.com> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:23:19 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick K Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry?? References: <20020331191939.93845.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick K wrote: > --- Nick Lozinsky wrote: > >>Subject: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry?? >> >>>Hi, >>> I have read on the Internet that FreeBSD is >>> >>used in making the effects >> >>>of the movie, The Matrix. Is that true? >>> >>> Are there any movies whose effects are made >>> >>using freebsd?? >> >>>If so,does that mean that an ordinary PC can also >>> >>produce such effects if >> >>>the PC is running freebsd and the apporopiate >>> >>hard/software? >> >>As far as I know, IRIX was used and is used to make >>most of the SGI for >>games and movies. Because IRIX is a part of SGI's >>supercomputers, it is >>directly used. >> >>Later >> > > I think FreeBSD was used for "The Matrix", although > for a long time IRIX was THE system used. "Phantom > Menace", "Perfect Storm", "XMen", and "Gladiator" are > a few recent movies that used IRIX. See the press release at http://www.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-1.html Kent > > Linux is starting to replace IRIX. I think "Shrek" was > done with Linux. "Lord of the Rings" was done on SGI > hardware running Red Hat Linux. I've read that > LucasFilm is going to Linux too. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover > http://greetings.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message