On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, jtd wrote:
--- Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh@vsnl.com wrote: GIMP? a good graphics software!!! GIMP is basically an "image manipulation" tool, try to do something as basic as creating shapes (rectangles, triangles, etc), you'll have to really break your head.
Filters - Render - gfig
Why 3 steps? Take the scenario in CorelDraw, pick the shapes tool and draw...
Film animation was ealier or SGI, now most of them are moving over to MacOS X, Linux was just used by one or two films (I think Titanic, but again they are rumours, no hard facts).
Lord of the rings, Toy story, Chicken Run all used linux render farms. You are mixing up the front ends with the backend. Remove the backend and MacOS X would suck real bad doing animation (oh well it
Your concept of a backend is different from the general perception... MacOS X is a complete OS which uses Aqua for the Windowing System (like Linux uses the X Windowing System)
So in MacOS X there is no concept of a backend and frontend, its one whole product.
Ofcourse using a render farm is a totally different story, they just speed up the rendering processes, creativity is enhanced by the tools used to actually create the figures, Linux can never compete with MacOS X (comparison because they both use the Unix paradigm) as far as end user usability goes...
would suck only a little less than Linux). Ease of use is just one part of the story. Costs, availablity, stability, upgradability, yak-yak-yak all add up to the final market share.
They are gaining, infact the productivity of a person using MacOS X is generally higher than a person using Linux (using either KDE or GNOME). Ofcourse, you shouldn't comment on it unless you've tried MacOS X.
~Mayuresh