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Paying nVidiaPaying nVidiaPosted Jan 18, 2007 5:46 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)In reply to: Paying nVidia by alvherre Parent article: LCA: The state of the Nouveau project All of the computer graphics effects houses are using Linux. Pixar, Lucasfilm/ILM, Dreamworks, etc. They live in fear that nVidia will walk away from the market, leaving them with nothing to run but that new Intel chipset. They have people as smart as the ones at nVidia, and ones who know how to code for that sort of hardware. I wrote microcode for the Pixar image computer. Mostly 2D point processes, not 3D rendering. But I'm hardly the only one who has worked in this. Bruce
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Paying nVidia Posted Jan 25, 2007 18:37 UTC (Thu) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link] They live in fear that nVidia will walk away from the market, leaving them with nothing to run but that new Intel chipset.Has ATI/AMD vanished from this universe? I recently bought an X850XT which does 3D nicely with free drivers (also tried an X800GTO and an X550 successfully). ATI are pretty bad nowadays, but at least they gave us the info for the R200, and AFAIK this then helped with the R300 and R400 (don't buy R500 (X1xxx), though). Also, I would expect the film people to do all their rendering in software, no need for 3D hardware.
Paying nVidia Posted Aug 16, 2007 18:20 UTC (Thu) by MenTaLguY (guest, #21879) [Link] The authoring tools generally take advantage of hardware acceleration to work with the assets in realtime; the final software-only rendering is non-realtime. However, with the increased programmability of GPUs, there's increasing potential for hardware acceleration there too.
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