Saturday, October 20, 2007

News Blog 7

What I learned from class:

I learned more about AI in our team's presentation: handwriting recognition. Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive intelligible handwritten input. I also got to know more about AI systematically from our professor: neural networks, game trees and etc. And I totally agree with the comment that" AI is not so mysterious. It is just about mathematics".

Relevant Article:
Massive Software and Mental Images announce Mental Ray support within Massive
http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=169489

The two Academy Award winning applications, Massive Software and Mental Images, had announced native support for Mental Ray in Massive. Mental Ray support within Massive is available with Mental Ray 3.6 and coincides with the new Version 3.0 of Massive. Undoubtedly, this move by those two companies was stimulated by the estimation that there are lots of people who would like to use the two applications together as the use of Massive becomes more and more prolific among facilities. Native support for mental ray within Massive, "will give customers additional options for rendering Massive scenes and allow them to optimize workflow for applications and pipelines that rely on the quality and realism of Mental Ray". Apparently, Digital Production companies are happy to see this move happen.

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