---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ and click banner our sponsor ---------------------------------------------------------- AlphaServer system helps Bunny win Oscar For the second consecutive year, Compaq AlphaServer systems helped a motion picture win an Academy Award. Last year it was Titanic a three-hour, blockbuster with special effects created on more than 200 AlphaServer systems that won Best Picture. This year it was Bunny a seven-minute movie created on 40 four-CPU AlphaServer systems that won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. To render the visual effects of the ship and its thousands of passengers during Titanic post-production, Alpha-based workstations and server systems crunched through terabytes of data. Digital Domain, the company which managed the computer generated images for the movie, relied on the power of more than 200 Alpha systems running 24 hours a day for two straight months, averaging an astounding 800 million computer instructions per second. The Alpha servers were running on the Linux operating system. The film's special effects won numerous awards. Bunny is the first to use radiosity, a computer rendering technique that mimics the most subtle properties of natural light. Bunny beat out The Canterbury Tales, Jolly Roger, More and When Life Departs for the award. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 24 Mar 1999 jam 04:04:34 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
