The collected works of skywriter - Page 2

lewis wrote: FYI I think it's impossible to build Blender with gcc. The problem is that it needs to link in the GLU library, which brings the SGI C++ library libC with it, which conflicts horribly with gcc's own C++ library, libstdc++. Someone else had similar problems with other things, and as far as I know there's no solution - you can't compile C++ programs that use GLU with gcc on Irix. If anyone knows otherwise, pipe up!

i don't know about the last sources. but up until i quit on it, it was compiling on a pure gcc machine, then something broke.... i forgot what, but i thought it was something with either the build system (blah, had to hack some ugly stuff) or STL crap.

jan-jaap wrote:

gandalf wrote: skywriter has that blender classic project. Imagine blender working on your 4D series, indigo1 or Crimson? wouldn't that rock?
running blender on a skywriter?

Stop teasing me 8)

well the 1.8 version and build system (if you figure it out, and it's not too hard too) do work on those old machines. the point of the classic project was to bring the non-c++ blender core back to 1.8, before all the swizzle-glop-gnu-junior-code(tm) was added. but *bing* cronic lack of time. even worse now.

lewis wrote: I'll try and package it up, or maybe wait for the 2.4 final, if anyone else even cares :)

so, 2.4-pre still compiles with MIPSPro? that would be nice place to fork, before the opengl 1.1+'s inch their way in.

edit: since it really is a pain in the ass to setup a compilation without an external libs CVS site to download them (python lib, jpeg lib, zlib, etc...) from. there are way too many external GNU-ish crutches to make this easy to compile by itself.

GeneratriX wrote: I like them!

He will not eat green eggs and ham, like them, like them, Sam I am!

You really can't put a price on good stuff!

hamei wrote: If wishes were horses beggars would ride

if apples had teeth, they'd bite back.

like the vi + perl problem; i've installed NO-GUI distributions, and ended up with a dependancy on X11 lib's with emacs. it gets really tiresome after a while. too much freedom can eat up your time! :)

foetz wrote:

GIJoe wrote: i noticed they give away free licenses for impressario as well, is that one still useful? never tried but i'm curious to know how well current laser and inket printers might be supported (being an sgi user for a few years, i somehow guess: none but prehistoric models :D ).

doesn't have to be a loss.
the hp scsi scanners e.g. are terrific.
none of these slim, light usb toys can keep up there.

damn straight. my HP scanjet 5P cranks over the USB ones...

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By 2010 microprocessors will seem like really old ideas. Motherboards will end up in museum collections. And the whole ecology that we have around so-called industry standard systems will collapse as it becomes increasingly obvious that the only place that computer design actually happens is by those who are designing chips. Everything downstream is just sheet metal. The apparent diversity of computer manufactures is a shattered illusion. In 2010, if you can't craft silicon, you can't add value to computer systems. You'd be about as innovative as a company in the 90's who couldn't design a printed circuit board.

getting back to the original quote; this is more or less a true statement. to paraphrase John Mashey "all computer architectures have devolved into CPU, memory, and the attributes of the ways in which the are connected" at this point, yes you can't do much product differentiation at this level anymore. the falacy of the quote is that real customers that drive the computer industry don't buy these value add chips themselves, they buy them integrated into products the computer people, who can now provide differentiation by determining what those chip vendors produce in terms of 'innovation'. so nothing has really changed, only the scale at which differentiation happens.

of course this is all dwarfed by what product differentiation can be done in the realm of software; where a similar thing has occured. really; how much value do you add to an operating system before you have pleased 80% of the market? not much anymore, everyone has the same basic functionality whether it's IRIX, linux, windows, or macos; it's the applications that are ported to these OS's that sell them now, and their corresponding hardware platform. again nothing has really changed.

so is the original quote valid? yes, in a very general way. but then again at the same scale nothing has changed much since the 60's anyway (if you neglect eyecandy). yes even open source existed back then.

so *yawn* i blew a strut tower mount, bummer. now at least i have an excuse to install my new anti-sway bar end-links, and dual spring rate springs. so maybe my computers are slow, but my car is kickass. i'll blow away gammer on the road.

very nice home setup. your art is interesting as well. very colorful.

josehill wrote: ...so there will probably be at least one lonely IRIX engineer left until then.

he'll probably be outsourced though.

the series III was cool, it ran OS9. my contemporary favorite. oh i forgot to mention my Lynn Drum :)

thanks for keeping at it!

uh, why doesn't anyone use the BSD lpr package? works like a champ for me. even with samba. i even use a NeXTstation with a laser printer. it can't get more f*cked up than that.

Charles does the current version of blender contain all the advances that were developed in the production of Elephants Dream? dual monitors, sequencer stuff, etc...

give3n the way Ton structured the use of a Netherlands foundation for Blender there shouldn't be a way to by it out. but, i'm not certain.

ka0s wrote: Can anyone confirm that the 2.44 version runs 11% faster on a SGI then the 2.45 version.
And does anyone have a clue why this is?

11% faster what?
if it's render time, then suspect the compiler.
if it's graphics performance then SOL.

ka0s wrote: I'm very sure that both versions where compiled using MIPSPRO.
And yes 11% faster when rendering .

three things come to mind:
1) is it only a mips architecture slow down, or it is intel as well?
2) the render pipeline has lots of steps, perhaps a default has changed? nuke your .blender directory stuff and try again.
3) there may be an 'enhancement' to the renderer to improve the quality of the image at the expense of more CPU time.

Ton used to spend a lot of time optimizing the renderer, not sure if they're doing that as well as they used to.

everything Miyazaki : ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki ) I'm watching conan future boy now. great stuff!

pom poko, and princess mononoko are great too.

i'm hooked on the entire fansub series of Naruto through Shippuden, plus all the movies.

definitely prefer the english subtitled fansub versions of anime to english dub.

it would be nice. i bought the "Big Buck Bunny" movie DVD. it came last night, i watched it and i've got to admit they did a really impressive job.

I didn't go to SIGGRAPH this year, but it would have been a movie worthy of the theater showing.

i put creamed corn on my Octane, and.... it didn't work.

add 2 more:
Samurai 7
Noein