Nice marketing you've made Daniel. Very encouraging,

	cheers

Sebastian Sastre


> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En 
> nombre de Daniel Lanovaz
> Enviado el: Lunes, 28 de Mayo de 2007 01:33
> Para: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Asunto: A brief history of books.
> 
> A short animated history book with a Sophie-Croquet theme is here:
> 
> http://web.mac.com/iphone2007/iWeb/Sophie-Croquet/Trailer%20HD.html
> 
> It is best to have your surround-sound stereo system ready to rumble.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Daniel
> 
> =======================================================
> 
> I created the animation to tip my hat to all the people who 
> spend their time, talents, and energy working on 
> Squeak/Croquet/Sophie et al. Keep up the great work.
> 
> The industry is at an exciting time where graphic arts, 
> Hollywood special effects software, gaming engines, real-time 
> ray tracing algorithms, and multi-core (parallel) hardware 
> combine to bring some amazing advances to not only 
> story-telling and education, but general purpose computing interfaces.
> 
> This animation uses ray-tracing as the rendering technique, 
> particle emitters and hypervoxels for the meteor, smoke, and 
> sun flares, and an inverse-kinematics constraint system for 
> David L.'s bone movement. Mesh weight maps are used to warp 
> and curve both the character's mesh as well as the book's 
> pages and stargate.
> 
> I generated portions of this sequence for a trailer of an 
> animation I will be showing at a fundraising event this 
> October/2007 for Loma Prieta Elementary and Middle Schools in 
> the Los Gatos mountains, California (to offset a reduction in 
> state funding).
> 
> David L. is a friend of mine and a Fellow at AMD/ATI working 
> on the next generation multi-core cpu/gpu engines. I'm hoping 
> for some interesting products from AMD/ATI over the coming 
> years, as well as Intel and nVidia.
> 
> It will be interesting to watch the software folks harnessing 
> this multi-billion dollar investment in silicon and copper.
>