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Although Linux has yet to achieve wide popularity in the computer game world, it is making rapid progress toward becoming the dominant operating system in the other major entertainment arena: motion pictures. Name a motion picture from the past year or two that featured stunning animation or dazzling special effects, and chances are the film’s producers used Linux-based computers to splash those graphics on the big screen. Read the article here.
That is totally awesome...
I didn't know that titanics water was computer generated using Linux....(Redhat)
Or that Lord of the Rings was done with a SSG x2 Linux.....
And that they generated a terabyte a day of animation.... ouch!
here is a cool graphics company in australia that i once had an interview for, which uses Window$ NT and SGI Unix for their rendering farms: www.gmd.com.au. check out some of the stuff they've done, pretty impressive.
And who can forget AntiTrust. I know of people who, although regular computer users, weren't even aware that there's an "open source revolution" going on out there.......
JURASSIC PARK is the best example i think.They used some 100 comp's running linux.