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How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future

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  • Apr 17, 2013
  • #Technology #Animation #Filmmaking #Digitaleconomy
Alvy Ray Smith
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www.wired.com
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Inventors, visionaries, engineers — whatever you want to call them — have to arrive at each level before they can even imagine a way to the next one … and then create it. That’s how... Show More

Inventors, visionaries, engineers — whatever you want to call them — have to arrive at each level before they can even imagine a way to the next one … and then create it. That’s how Pixar and its first film Toy Story — the first feature-length computer-animated film — became a reality. The secret was Moore’s Law, and not just in the technical way you would think.

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Sonal Chokshi @smc90 · Mar 27, 2022
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also one of my favorite pieces assigned & edited here, from Wired, is co-founder of Pixar Alvy Ray Smith on how they had to PLAN and pace their creative innovation towards Moore's Law improvements, almost proactively not just reactively:
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