On Mar 6, 3:35 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is fairly well know that cinematic digital effects are most often > rendered on *nix machines with efficient numeric > code.http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9951 > > But Python sometimes has a role too: from the middile of the above link > > ''' > Tippett Studio: Linux Python Pipeline > JET is a proprietary Python-based system comprising software tools and > scripts used to implement a visual effects and animation pipeline. "A > visual effects and animation pipeline is an assembly line of software used > to organize, automate and facilitate the creation of computer-generated > imagery", says Darling. "The JET tool is highly customizable, featuring > XML-based user-interface templates that can be modified to suit specific > types of artists or production needs. JET uses modular template chunks to > perform each of the tasks in the pipeline, such as rendering or > compositing. The templates are implemented as Python objects and are > centrally located. JET is not only implemented entirely in Python, but it's > also used to generate Python scripts automatically. These custom scripts > form unique pipelines for each computer graphics job to run on the > renderfarm." > > '''
That's neat. Phil Tippett has been one of my favorite Special Effects people and now he's using my favorite programming language too. Hopefully Python will make Tippett more productive than ILM! Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
