the drivel of moritz mœller
I found a surprise parcel in my mailbox this evening. As it came directly from Amazon UK, I had no idea who sent it to me.
It turned out to be a DVD of the 1966 movie Django. It apparently was a late x-mas present from Aghiles Kheffache, lead developer of 3Delight.
In honour of this masterpiece of the spaghetti western genre, the current 3Delight release 7 is named ‘Django’.
This is the movie that made Franco Nero a star. Don’t forget to watch the trailer!
Last night we went to the OXO Tower Restaurant Bar & Brasserie, in — you guessed it already — the OXO Tower on London’s South Bank. Located on the 8th floor, this venue not suprisingly sports some rather pleasant views of London’s skyline.
Curiously this restaurant is operated by Harvey Nichols, a department store specializing in upper segment– & luxury brands. Our experience, at the end, seems to suggest that this business’s venture into the realm of cuisine should be taken with a grain of salt. Continue »
Yep, that’s right. A new 3Delight just came freshly out of DNASoft’s oven of goodness. Photon mapping, point cloud baking & shadeops, toon outlines and a raytrace hider are among the most notable features for the crowd. However, 3Delight 6.0 comes with “exclusive” AOVs. AOVs tagged as such don’t get matted by µ-polygons who write to other displays. This and some nice extensions to the OpenEXR display driver make this release very interesting for VFX shops that rebuild lots of their shader math in compositing.
There’s also a Gentoo ebuild here for this — in case you run the best GNU/Linux distro currently out there too and wondered.