OT: Aardman - Robinsons Milk 2005-06-03 - By Schoenberger
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|> Are you thinking of starting an underground XSI plugin network? ;-)
|> ahh our very own shader-mafia. Trafficing patent breaking goods.
With a mafia you got backup, then nobody would try to touch you :-)
|> Seriously though - if they were able to prove it broke
|> patent then as
|> far as I'm aware being inhouse makes no difference - it's still
|> breaking the patent. I'm surprized that blender uses cube
|> marching for
|> its metaballs - though perhaps they got patent clearance - though I
|> can't imagine them giving it away for free - regardless of
|> how feeble
|> the concept is.
I have seen some companies who developed fluid like stuff, perhaps someone has
to dig deeper into the specific patent and get the exact point, what is
patented.
Perhaps only the stable part is patented, but as Jos Stam is mentioned as one of
the two inventors, it could be difficult. A lot of other fluid research is based
on his stable fluid research (presented at SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Proceedings)
Holger Sch�nberger
technical director
The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
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