Someone posted a remark in the last post about the Namdaemun gate fire. The guy was mad that I made a couple of jokes about what probably happened. While I shouldn’t have to defend the humor industry I would like to point out that I was right.
It turns out that a 69 drunk man was responsible for the fire. In fact, the same guy set fire to a palace a few years back too.
I should note that I hardly think of myself as an expert on Korea, but I’d like to think that I gained a bit of knowledge of its culture, including its darker side (e.g., business men passed out and vomiting all over the place in public and no one stops because it is so common place).
This topic is tangentially related to DreamWorks in the graphics department. That image of the gate burning was fairly intense, up there with some high-quality CGI flicks.
And to update my previous post about Pixar and rendering capabilities, I recently came across how Shrek the Third was rendered.
Some numbers:
3000 servers
20 million CPU render hours compared to 10 million for number II and 5 million for the original movie