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Hi. What a great meeting! Good turnout for a no-demo meeting, 15 people: Robin, Gabrielle, Scott, Anurag, Mark, Daniel, Michael, Kit, Bob, Hriday, Michael, Darren, Clay, Jerimiah, Thad.
Next month is the Piranha/Amazon presentation.
Some notes below from this week's meeting. Notes organized by the person who brought up a topic, but may have been someone else's comment. As usual, last names omitted to protect the innocent.
Robin:
- Linux Movies Group
- CinePaint: Dillo help editor, UCLA scratch removal
Scott:
- SCALE Linux conference in L.A. in November
- USC would like donated computer hardware for Linux cluster
Anurag:
- Building TiVo-like device to cost $250,
no subscription fees
[ Sounds cool, I want one! ]
Mark:
- Consultant
- Suggested CinePaint use Helmut resampling code. [Mark, URL?]
- CinePaint plug-in API needs improvement
- Writing a Shake plug-in
Jerimiah:
- Linux monitor calibration software? Nobody
had a good answer. Studios have
rolled there own internal systems. Colorvision Spider and the
Monaco Puck
are popular hardware without Linux support. [ Can we get hardware
and write
drivers? ]
- Using Lightware and Inferno, learning Maya
Dan:
- Studio film editor
Michael:
- Starting a post-production studio
Kit:
- Graphics artist
- Wants canvas, palette to mix color like Painter8, and layers
that interact
in CinePaint
Bob:
- Student filmmaker
Paulo:
- Building Linux cluster at USC
- Need more donated hardware (anything would improve over Sparc10s!)
- Software suggestions included Maui, OpenMosix, Beowolf, and
Globus
Mike:
- Wrote play-out system that works with
TiVo
- Built 1TB array
- NVIDIA PCIX to put 4+ GPUs in one PC
Darren:
- Major entertainment web site
- Working on personal animation project (green screen, 3 minutes)
- Project mgmt software for tracking animation progress?
- Likes Aura DV, similar to Toaster
- Likes Moho, vector paint with with a bone in it to control motion
Clay:
- Computer systems builder
- LULA, Linux Users L.A.
- At LinuxWorld booth fundraising for GNOME (T-shirts)
- LPG, Linux Public Broadcasting
- BeachBlues.net
Thad:
- Studio technologist
- 2 Fast 2 Furious 100% Linux
- Cg GPU hardware rendering
- Vector shader, 1M particles in realtime
- Render to Cg pbuffer to avoid collision with screen
Thursday, September 4, 2003 (1st
Thursday)
7-9pm
Free!
Linux has become the most popular operating system for animation and special effects in the motion picture industry. CinePaint project leader Robin Rowe (www.CinePaint.org) leads an informal get-together for those interested in Linux motion picture technology. Discussion of Linux-based graphics tools such as Blender, CinePaint, Houdini, Maya, Mental Ray, NUKE, POV-Ray, Radiance, Renderman, Shake, and SoftImage.
*** LOCATION ***
ArcLight
Cinemas
6360 West Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood, California
310-993-6539
*** DIRECTIONS AND PARKING ***
The ArcLight is located on Sunset Blvd. just west of Vine St. in Hollywood.
Look for the big dome. Public parking in the ArcLight, about $4 with discount voucher available at meeting. At the ArcLight, go to the banquet room -- just south outside the main entrance. Food available next door in the ArcLight Cafe. We head over there about 8pm.
Thursday, September 11, 2003 (2nd Thursday)
Baker's Square
3360 Castro Valley Blvd
Castro Valley, CA 94546
Contact Kristine Sawyer to let her know that you plan to attend.
Meeting at 7:30pm