I was asking myself the same question for years until early 2010 when he
suddenly stood next to my desk at the company I was working a few years ago -
Sproing Interactive in Vienna. They didn't even know whom they had hired, and
it was not for Softimage programming or support either, but for game
(specifically shader) development.
He is probably one of the smartest guys I ever met, and at the same time very
laid back and discrete.
He doesn't seem to care much about Softimage or Plugin development anymore and
seems to prefer his 9-5 job and
his privacy. I tried to contact him sever times when I was trying to connect
him with Eric and Holger (some potential shader writing job) but he didn't even
get back....
Where *is* Daniel Rind? It's one of those mysteries of Softimage land....
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com>wrote:
Afaik Gelato was written by Larry Gritz after he left Pixar and was based
on his former work on PRMan and BMRT.
The product did not do very well (it was a revolutionary concept at that
time but slow as hell), and was eventuall bought out by Nvidia and
successively rewritten to use the GPU, until NVidia bought out MentalRay
and eventually discontinued Gelato (very much to the dismay of a former
working colleague of mine, Daniel Rind, who had invested considerable
amounts of time to writing a Softimage-Gelato connection, which he then
abandoned).
used to be a gpu renderer called gelato as well licensed by nVidia
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