Seconded: I had a blast reading this article. And I'd also be very curious for stats about power profile instead of raw speed (I'd expect them to be more or less correlated, but that might be a flawed assumption)
It does - though it gets fully attributed to its Global Illumination rendering. Which is odd since every renderer and his dog supports GI these days, many of them have for years already. I wonder what's new or different about Hyperion's GI?
There are many ways of handling GI (which is basically, taking in consideration light that bounces though the scene in addition to that emitted directly by light sources). Until now, Disney used and hybrid approach rasterizing the main scene and raytracing some effects that a rasterizer can't handle. Now with this new renderer they have joined the full raytracing wagon.
In fact, they are far from being pioneers in the field (right now raytracing is widely used in production rendering), but it's a big step for Disney and they have built their raytracer from ground, allowing them to implement it with some clever tricks.
This gets at a distinction I think matters: landlords vs individual owners. Landlords using AirBnB strikes me as against the ideal of AirBnB and I am not happy that they allow this. In fact when I try to locate an AirBnB spot, I always try to single out the ones that aren't from landlords but from actual individual owners (not always obvious).
Frontier was fine, a good Elite sequel. Even First Encounters was okay after extensive patching. And the problems with First Encounters at launch were apparently down to deadline issues with the publisher, just the kind of thing that a Kickstarter launch ought to avoid.
It's not so much 'not missing the human element' as it is 'finding your mojo'. It's the first part of that whole keynote in which Google actually was itself instead of trying to mimic Apple's keynote style and approach. Immediately felt better (and more convincing, too)
I believe Steve Song's wonderful Village Telco project is about doing just that -- creating a low-cost wifi mesh to share connections. It certainly deserves a mention here!
If you don't think it's different, wait for publishers to pull albums from Spotify. This happens all the time. poof gone. Does this happen to your CDs?
