Computers are faster than they were in 1995.
The WSJ talks to Disney about the new Toy Story re-release. They discover that rendering speeds are now 86400 times faster than they were 14 years ago which conjures up an initial feeling of ‘no shit’ followed by a realisation of just how quick that is. Scary stuff.
The process of rendering the films — or translating computer data into images — was vastly accelerated by current technology. Where the original “Toy Story” required an hour per frame to create, Mr. Lasseter said, rendering the new 3-D version took less than 1/24th of a second per frame.
(via Watching Apple)
2 years ago