hyperion

They can always share some of Hyperion with Pixar when Pixar is at a point to change things.

I'm certain they could have produced Big Hero 6 without Hyperion, but Hyperion gave their artists a lot of freedom by removing some of the technical limitations.

Worth noting that Google seems to use Oracle Hyperion - you pretty much have to use tools like Hyperion for consolidated financial reporting once a company gets past a certain complexity level.

Yes, and considering that The Fall of Hyperion was published in 1990, that scenario should have been obvious to the Wachowskis.

Sorry, I guess what I meant was that Hyperion is perfectly capable of being used in test renders.

I have tried Hyperion a few times but I find it a little too slow and I give up.

For those interested, The Hyperion series has some excellent audiobook editions on audible.

I'm currently about a third of the way through Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

In the first comparison I see that the shadows in the picture generated by Hyperion are way too fuzzy compared to the reference photo.

And the Hyperion Cantos is an excellent series.

They're probably alluding to Disney's Hyperion renderer[1].

Are there any works from the last 2 decades that could be even mentioned in the same breath as dune, foundation, ender's game, neuromancer, hyperion...etc.?

"Disney uses a mix of Hyperion and RenderMan, as Hyperion is not useable for test renders, as it can take up to 15 minutes until a pixel will appear on the screen, as they trace millions of rays at the same time." None of the things you claim in this sentence are true.

Dan Simmonds' Hyperion/The Fall of Hyperion.

It is interesting indeed but the best Sci Fi fiction work in my view is Hyperion.

Hyperion's architecture also allows them to use packet tracing and to load and subdivide geometry on demand, which is also really great.