On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, John Foust wrote:
> At Siggraph, the industry's big trade show, the Kingston memory chip
> booth wasn't far from our booth, and they spent the week telling
> people to buy their memory because it was used in the machines
> that rendered scenes from Titanic.
And Bruce Faust, one of VCF 2.0's speakers, built the render farm that
rendered the scenes for Titanic using DEC Alpha's under NT (or so he
SAYS! :)
> Back to Tron, though - three-four years ago, I remember meeting
> someone at a Siggraph who claimed to have worked on Tron, and who
> still had a copy of the original computer 3D models. I think he was
> a Caucasian wearing a robe and Sikh-like turban, but my memory
This sounds exactly like Rick Rubin, the big-time hip-hop/rap producer.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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