Wired News report that scientists say they’ve identified a flawed gene that appears to promote manic depression a finding that eventually could help guide scientists to new treatments.
Just noted that Opera Film have updated their page, not by much, but there are now two small galleries of captures from Camp Slaughter and work in progress images from Typhoon.
The one of Typhoon contain pretty “old” images and don’t say that much compared to the demonstration clip (and another one) I’ve seen.
There are a few newsworthy bits regarding Melies the open-source compositor I’m developing as project leader.
I’m happy to welcome a new developer, Mikael Sundell from Actro Group, onboard the project this early on before any official CVS release. He has offered to develop our support for Quicktime on the Linux platform and write a brand new flipbook that will support both frame stores (frames in individual image files) as well as svq/svq3/DV/jpeg/mjpeg video and use OpenGL framebuffers for display.
Personaly I’m currently away from the Melies project doing some user interface refactoring for K-3D that will make the whole interface using scriptable widgets. When that is done I’m going to work on the two projects in parallel finishing Melies render engine Irend and get the codebase into CVS.
I’m not talking about the eleven volumes of the Warren Commision’s report but the software used to deinterlace and retime Camp Slaughter. The movie will be released in time for Halloween and open in theatres throughout Scandinavia, with an international DVD release following soon after.
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