Submission + - R. "Doc" Baily's Rendering Engine "SPO
Hovelander writes: "Over a year has passed since the death of visionary CGI artist
Richard
"Doc"
Baily, the man behind the visuals in movies such as
"Solaris",
"Tron", and
"Fight Club". His custom particle rendering
"SPORE" software that helped create some of those
visions resides in the hands of a few, if any, and is most definitely in danger of being lost to time or powers that will exploit the software for their own limited gain. How is it this groundbreaking code has not been allowed out now that its genius creator has passed? Baily states: "...the workings of my system are so different from polygonal, nurby, volume or scanline renderings that i literally had to unlearn a lot of concepts that are inherent in "traditional" CG systems which I've been using for close to 30 years."
The
man seemed to have been a
rebel that Hollywood tolerated on his terms and his work may well be lost to the rich and connected. By all appearances he would have wanted his baby to keep evolving and actively creating. Who is holding this code up and out of our hands?"