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Re: Movie "TITANIC" - Which database used to make it?

From: Elizabeth Finson <efinson_at_uswest.com>
Date: 1998/02/12
Message-ID: <6bvjht$6m8$1@news.xmission.com>#1/1

In the interest of EXTREME accuracy, he says that MOST of the effects were rendered on SGI and NT. Digital Domains used 350 SGI CPUs, and 200 DEC Alpha CPUs, some NT, some Linux.


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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 garym_at_sympatico.ca wrote:

> In the interests of accuracy: http://www.titanicmovie.com has a transcript
> of the IRC with the director ...
>
> The 30 minutes of digital effects (which cost $40M) were rendered
 on SGI > hardware ... _and_ on NT machines.
>
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Received on Thu Feb 12 1998 - 00:00:00 CST

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