Recent content by John M. Carr

*cough* TARDIS *cough* :D

Ooooooh... Modern, LaTeX-set Feynman lectures. Yummy.

I'll just leave this right here. (Regeneration is far more effective than surgery, IMHO. :P )

[/PLAIN] I'm not too familiar with such things, but that sounds like it could start a war as well.

She was that disturbing, eh?

You know the moment someone says that, there's going to be a) a riot, b) a war, c)the combination of those two, also known as a "flame war." Basically, only say that if you want to cause trouble. ;-)

Neither did I, until yesterday. And guess who was at the top of the list when I first saw it? If you said "Danger," you're coooooooorect! I am far too laconic to ever hope to compete.

I literally laughed out loud.

Hello. I'm John, and I'm 25. Until recently, I was a part-time college student, and now I'm not. The degree I was going for, Computer Technology with a programming emphasis, was something I seemed to be proficient at, but it was also something that I have pretty much zero passion about. I...

That does sound like a good combination. *waves at Sara* Hi!

Certainly not me. I'm taking the visuals on their own for the moment, but not the movie itself, because I've seen clips of them and I have some experience working with CGI on a hobby/amateur basis. From what I've read so far, though, I'm going to love the movie. Of course I pretty much turn my...

You're missing the point, not by a little, but completely: none of their software is meant to make things look as visually real (in the artistic sense) as what the folks who did the VFX for this movie had at their disposal. I'm not speaking to the direct scientific utility of the visualizations...

Okay, then. You do know they had to customize their rendering engine before they could render anything, right? As in go into the API and rework things by hand. Why do you think Kip Thorne sent them the raw equations? Raytracers do not come with "GR-awareness" on their own--you have to specify...

100 hours rendering time for some frames on top-of-the line equipment is rather expensive.

Yeah, but the visuals they used for Interstellar took a staggering amount of time to render and data storage. As someone who's dabbled in 3-D modeling and animation from time to time, my mouth literally dropped open when I heard the figures.