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To: Michael Feldstein who wrote (24845)	5/17/1999 3:41:00 PM
From: Doren	of 213178

It's a huge mystery to me that Pixar hasn't ported some of its software to the Mac. Perhaps it was Apple's hope that QT 3D would do better against OpenGL. Maybe it will port now that OpenGL has finally been adopted. It's obvious that it would help the Mac platform, and it seems like it would open doors for Pixar as well. Pixar owns RenderMan, which is the state of the art rendering program for 3D and used by most major movie special effects companies. If you saw "A Bugs Life" you might have noticed the subtle lighting effect around the mushrooms, created with Renderman. Pixar also owns other high end programs, most notably a new system for polygon based 3D. In the past spline based 3D modeling has been favored because splines bend realistically where polygons don't (such as an elbow). However it is hard to attach pieces of spline based models to each other. Pixars new polygon system bends and attaches well and promises to revolutionize 3D modeling. Its likely that they have numerous other secret software products they keep to themselves to gain advantage over companies such as Pacific Data Images (which also writes its own software). As for the sale, I think Jobs likes to have two companies.

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