Re: FW: Linux hits big big screen


Subject: Re: FW: Linux hits big big screen
bryan@ak.net
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 12:42:12 AKDT


On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:54:41AM -0800, Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com> wrote:
>
> A proprietary software application running on a cluster of 160
> Red Hat Linux servers from Dell was used as part of the DMR
> process, where the 35mm film is touched up and made to look
> sharp on the larger format. (IMAX says that simply blowing up
> regular film to IMAX size makes the pictures fuzzy.) This is a

Hmm. I'm no expert, but this sounds to me like the "digital zoom"
used on digital cameras -- something that will add artificial detail
to the image, without any extra photographic information. Sounds
like cheating to me.

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Bryan Medsker
bryan@ak.net

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