Pixar Is Inventing New Math:
According to DeRose, Pixar is the first Hollywood studio equipped with it’s very own in-house scientific research facility. Mathematicians and computer scientists there are figuring out new mathematical ways to solve problems in animation.
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What they’re finding is that the interplay between academics and industry has been hugely successful. According to DeRose they now have more courage to explore scientific musings that would normally only have been possible in a university environment.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:29 am
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