Linux Movies Group Advancing Linux motion picture technology

Home

Meetings

Press

Mailing List

Software

Studios

About

The Linux Movies Group is an organization for the advancement and mutual support of motion picture technologists using the Linux operating system. Linux is the most popular operating system for animation and visual effects in the motion picture industry.

• Linux Movies Wiki Online Encyclopedia

Questions? Contact Robin Rowe. Please join the mailing list so you get the announcements. Interested in Linux Shake?

NEXT MEETING -- Linux Movies Group -- Hollywood Region

April 6th, 2005 - Digital Ordnance Frame Thrower

• 7pm - 9pm Presentation at Flash Film Works (743 Seward St.)
• Afterwards - Alessi Italian restaurant (6602 Melrose Ave.)

Speaker

• Daryll Strauss

Daryll Strauss is the president of Digital Ordnance and the principle designer of Frame Thrower, an uncompressed 2k playback system for film and HDTV. Frame Thrower enables artists to view and manipulate 2k images in real time. The Linux Frame Thrower server works with Linux, Windows, Mac, and IRIX clients and servers.

Daryll has a career in advancing Linux computer graphics. While at Digital Domain he created the first Linux cluster used in a major motion picture, the renderfarm for Titanic. Titanic won the Academy Award for visual effects that year and proved to the world that Linux was ready. Daryll created the first hardware accelerated 3D support for Linux by developing the driver for 3dfx Voodoo Graphics cards. Working at VA Linux he helped develop Linux graphics drivers for ATI, Intel, Matrox, 3dfx, and S3 for Lawrence Livermore National Labs.

Presentation will include a history of Linux in the special effects industry and a demonstration of the Frame Thrower system. An opportunity to talk about the strengths and weakness of Linux in film post production with someone who has been working in it from the beginning.

http://digitalordnance.com/

Location

Flash Film Works
743 Seward St.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-468-8855

*** DIRECTIONS AND PARKING ***

Flash Film Works is located just north of Melrose between Highland and Vine on Seward St. in Hollywood. The Seward Street sign is hard to see. It's the second right after Wilcox when going west, or the second left after Cherokee when going east. Park on the street. Enter through gate. Enter building in back and then upstairs.

• From Glendale: Rt. 134 west, exit Lankershim south (you can't get on Rt. 101 south directly), pass Universal Studios and under bridge, turn right at light and right again on 101 south, exit on Vine south, Melrose west, Seward north.
• From North Hollywood: Rt. 101 south, exit on Vine south, Melrose west, Seward north.
• From downtown Los Angeles, Rt. 101 north, exit on Melrose west, Seward north.
• From Santa Monica: Rt. 10 east, exit La Brea north, take La Brea to Melrose east, Seward north.
• From Beverly Hills: Melrose east past La Brea, Seward north.

No charge to attend. No reservations necessary.

---

NEXT MEETING -- Linux Movies Group -- San Francisco Region

• April 13th, 2004 (2nd Wednesday) at 7pm

Hurricane Electric Facility
760 Mission Court
Fremont, CA 94539

For info email Ramona Howard

Coming to Linux Movies Hollywood

• May 4, 2005 - Ron Totah from BlueArc (at Flash Film Works)
• Jun 1, 2005 - Bruce Moxon from NetApp (at Flash Film Works)
• Jul 6, 2005
• Aug 3, 2005 - Special event during SIGGRAPH
• Sep 7, 2005
• Oct 5, 2005
• Nov 2, 2005
• Dec 7, 2005