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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by tekklloneer on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @01:54PM (#13420031)
| As I did that I learned that there were aspects of this code that felt like a school assignment that had escaped from the lab

from a brief stint in the gfx industry, you are correct.

Pixar isn't a model of software excellence, it's a model of process and (ugh) culture excellence.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by santaclaus on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:17PM (#13423193)
Didn't Pixar invent the alpha channel? Being the 'a' in rgba is pretty rad!
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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by dgfgfdagasdfgfa on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @10:52PM (#13423827)
No, a Pixar co-founder invented it well before Pixar existed.

But I mean, the other co-founder was Ed Catmull, so it's not like the company is short on innovation.

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