Eulogy for a rendering engine

[Christopher Arnold]

We gather here on this the 31st day of January, 2003, to honor a fallen hero in the battle for software survival...

Is there anyone how would like to say a few words in tribute?

PS As Jeff mentioned on the Lightscape board, there will be candlelight vigil held in Calgary this evening.

[Michiel Quist]

Lets take over Lightscape and make it in to a plugin for MAX!!! (or VIZ,MAYA,etc..)

[Ernest Burden III]

Farewell, render-friend.

C++ to C++, bits to bits, direct illumination begets indirect. In your wake quads have no place, being slashes to triangle and block are just groups, open-source text-format filetypes shall be proprietary forevermore. You served us well, rarely crashed, and made digital images pretty again. You out-ran most others, but could not survive a knife in the back, few can. RIP

Actually, you will get no rest, Lightscape. I plan to use you up 'till there ain't any more code to use up. You will be my avenging angel--at least until I learn to make pictures without you.

[John Dollus]

Well spoken.

-hangs head low in observance-

...As the efficient gives way to the bloated, so too must progressive refinement yeild to the stochastic. Alas, command prompt, you are no more...

[Jeff Mottle]

Farewell friend.

[Christopher Arnold]

...your ideal diffuse will in our eyes forever.

[nuno faria]

C++ to C++, bits to bits, direct illumination begets indirect. In your wake quads have no place, being slashes to triangle and block are just groups, open-source text-format filetypes shall be proprietary forevermore. You served us well, rarely crashed, and made digital images pretty again. You out-ran most others, but could not survive a knife in the back, few can. RIP

...amen

[Pierre-Felix Breton]

Candlelight vigil in Montreal as well...

[Dominic Lock]

The king is dead....
Long live the king...???

I'm not un-installing it in a hurry. Can't give up on an old friend like that

[ February 01, 2003, 03:40 AM: Message edited by: sheep ]

[Mike Zagorski]

Going, going.... never gone! orangeno

Mike observes 99.9 iterations of silence... :angenone: