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The Linux engine in Cars

Publication:Linux WatchDate:Jun 23 2006
Reporter:Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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Ever wonder how Lightning McQueen and friends looked so good in the movie Cars? A lot of that spit and polish came from the Pixar Animation Studio's Linux workstations and servers.

Even on high-end Linux systems, though, each frame of the animated movie took about 8-hours to render. Much of that CPU time was consumed by ray tracing.




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