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The mantiCORE Labs articles section presents articles by our staff as well as relevant or interested articles of other sites. Our selection has a focus on industry articles, computer graphics and animation, .NET development, and Linux and open-source. If you have an article and you would like to see it listed here then please don't hesitate to contact us. mantiCORE Labs provides no guarantee that your article will be included but will take any submission into consideration.

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Latest articles
  • Is .NET the future of 3D ?
    In this article our CTO, Stefan Didak, will be looking at what the .NET architecture can mean to 3D application development. It is intended as a look towards a possible future.
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  • Technology goes to the movies
    Yankee Group entertainment analyst Adi Kishore, a former TV producer, said that with use of visual effects at an all-time high, a natural assumption would be that all firms in the industry are making good money. "But they are not," he told the E-Commerce Times.
  • Linux invades Hollywood
    Ten years ago, Linux was a student's hobby. Now it's becoming the film industry's operating system of choice.
  • The ILM Linux "DeathStar" renderfarm
    The Star Wars Death Star exists! But, not as a menacing planet-killing weapon. ILM's Death Star renderfarm is the computing power behind the many motion pictures produced at Industrial Light & Magic.
  • Film GIMP at Rhythm & Hues
    Linux is now being adopted in motion picture production at DreamWorks, Pixar, ILM and many other major studios.
  • Linux and the production of Scooby-Doo
    Scooby-Doo, the computer-generated dog in the Warner Brothers film of the same name, was created using Linux.
  • The move to Linux on ILM's renderfarm
    Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, released in May 2002, is Industrial Light & Magic's (ILM) first movie produced after converting its workstations and renderfarm to Linux last year.
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Bear to witness the absence of progress and innovation in mass-market CGI products.
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