I was just about to ask the exact same question.... :D
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Where *is* Daniel Rind? It's one of those mysteries of Softimage land...
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> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com>wrote:
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>> 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).
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>> used to be a gpu renderer called gelato as well licensed by nVidia
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