Moved: what will OS X bring us?
I've posted this question before but I think the time is right now that Jagwire is upon us to ask it again.
Bearing in mind that I know nothing about Unix at all.
1) what will X allow that has never been done before?
2) what will X allow you to do that no other OS can offer?
X is still not the finished article yet but is apparently getting closer. I must say I'm disappointed at the continually rising specs required to get decent performance out of it according many of the posts here. I've also heard a lot about inkwell et al but nothing really concrete.
Years ago a Unix tech-head friend of mine said something about Unix being able to pipe stuff. I confess to not really following (we were very drunk at the time
) but from what I can understand it seems to be something to do with the output from one command being fed immediately as the input from another.
Would this kind of scenario be possible:
Imagine being in FCP or After Effects etc and working on a movie. You need to composite a scene from Maya/Lightwave/C4D etc with real footage. Imagine having them both open and running. In FCP you'd pointer to the 3D graphics. As you work in Maya/Lightwave/C4D adjusting the scene the footage in FCP updates immediately as you scrub. You could adjust the lighting in the 3D software and see the results against your footage in FCP immediately. Or perhaps if you altered angles in After Effects Maya would then update. When you got what you wanted you asked FCp to render and when it came to the 3D footage FCP called Maya's renderer to do ist stuff live.
or should I get my coat?
[ 09-09-2002: Message edited by: Amorph ]</p>
Bearing in mind that I know nothing about Unix at all.
1) what will X allow that has never been done before?
2) what will X allow you to do that no other OS can offer?
X is still not the finished article yet but is apparently getting closer. I must say I'm disappointed at the continually rising specs required to get decent performance out of it according many of the posts here. I've also heard a lot about inkwell et al but nothing really concrete.
Years ago a Unix tech-head friend of mine said something about Unix being able to pipe stuff. I confess to not really following (we were very drunk at the time
) but from what I can understand it seems to be something to do with the output from one command being fed immediately as the input from another.Would this kind of scenario be possible:
Imagine being in FCP or After Effects etc and working on a movie. You need to composite a scene from Maya/Lightwave/C4D etc with real footage. Imagine having them both open and running. In FCP you'd pointer to the 3D graphics. As you work in Maya/Lightwave/C4D adjusting the scene the footage in FCP updates immediately as you scrub. You could adjust the lighting in the 3D software and see the results against your footage in FCP immediately. Or perhaps if you altered angles in After Effects Maya would then update. When you got what you wanted you asked FCp to render and when it came to the 3D footage FCP called Maya's renderer to do ist stuff live.
or should I get my coat?
[ 09-09-2002: Message edited by: Amorph ]</p>
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<strong>I must say I'm disappointed at the continually rising specs required to get decent performance out of it according many of the posts here.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Eh? Every update has been making X faster and faster...not the other way around (maybe you're confusing it with Windows?
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
<strong>I must say I'm disappointed at the continually rising specs required to get decent performance out of it according many of the posts here. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Q: How does Apple afford to pay programmers to write code?
A: Hardware sales......
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Ive been meaning to learn this stuff for too lomg now, but AS seem like a really powerful tool in the OS which Ive been ignoring <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> .
Ive read that there is more and more integration brwn the CLI and AppleScript.
Anyone w/AS knowledge want to chime in? Iwas going to say pipe-up, but thought better of it.