Thanks very much for your reply, Olivier.
On May 26, 3:31=A0pm, Olivier3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I don't think use of the RI spec was ever *the* major point of the
> lawsuit. Now I'm not a lawyer and I haven't read the actual filings,
> but from what I heard and read, it had more to do with Larry leaving
> Pixar with lots of knowledge about how PrMan works and starting his
> own competing company. There are a lot of trade secrets in a renderer,
> many of which are quite simple but hard to obtain, so I could
> understand if some people at Pixar got pissed. Now that's just my
> reading between the lines so take it for what it's worth ;-)
Ah, that was also my impression from trying to make sense of it. On
the other hand, Pixar doesn't exactly seem to promote the independent
use of the RI Spec, even by those who have no insider knowledge of
PRMan. On the third hand, why should they? :-)
> > Do the authors of Gelato envisage it's API as a possible alternative
> > standard to the RI?
>
> I'm sure they did (it is very similar) but right now it doesn't seem
> to be getting anywhere. Nvidia, being squeezed from all sides by
> integrated video solutions, is probably quite busy enough finding a
> future for itself.
I find their general purpose GPU offerings quite exciting. We'll see
what the future holds.
Michael
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