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- You wrote:
- >
- >Adam Ives Chrystie wrote:
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- >> Isn;t it interesting that this new Digital Cinema is popping up?
- >> The technology was there before..why now??
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- >Sounds like a homework assignment. The short answer has to be that
- >we crossed a cost threshold just a few years ago, which is another
- >way of saying that the technology (the hardware, the software, the
- >skills and techniques) really wasn't there until very recently.
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- Also note that until recently 3D graphics required a quantum head and
- quite a bit of programming skill. It's only recently that the UIs have
- gotten to the point where artists can begin to make the machines sing
- (or render, if you will..)
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- AC
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