Next meeting LinuxMovies.org - Frame Thrower - April 6th

NEXT MEETING -- Linux Movies Group -- Hollywood Region

http://www.linuxmovies.org

April 6th, 2005 - Digital Ordnance Frame Thrower

7pm - 9pm Presentation at Flash Film Works (743 Seward St.)
Afterwards - Alessi Italian restaurant (6602 Melrose Ave.)

Speaker - Daryll Strauss

Daryll Strauss is the president of Digital Ordnance and the principle 
designer of Frame Thrower, an uncompressed 2k playback system for film and 
HDTV. Frame Thrower enables artists to view and manipulate 2k images in real 
time. The Linux Frame Thrower server works with Linux, Windows, Mac, and 
IRIX clients and servers.

Daryll has a career in advancing Linux computer graphics. While at Digital 
Domain he created the first Linux cluster used in a major motion picture, 
the renderfarm for Titanic. Titanic won the Academy Award for visual effects 
that year and proved to the world that Linux was ready. Daryll created the 
first hardware accelerated 3D support for Linux by developing the driver for 
3dfx Voodoo Graphics cards. Working at VA Linux he helped develop Linux 
graphics drivers for ATI, Intel, Matrox, 3dfx, and S3 for Lawrence Livermore 
National Labs.

Presentation will include a history of Linux in the special effects industry 
and a demonstration of the Frame Thrower system. An opportunity to talk 
about the strengths and weakness of Linux in film post production with 
someone who has been working in it from the beginning.

http://digitalordnance.com/

Location
Flash Film Works
743 Seward St.
Los Angeles, CA 90038

No charge to attend. No reservations necessary.

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