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unusual facts about Autodesk Maya


USS Cooper: Return to Ormoc Bay

A model of the ship was created using Maya software, and was given motion, lighting and texture to bring it to life.


Lénárt sphere

Following Glen Van Brummelen (Reference 1 below, p. 129, stereographic projection), spherical trigonometry, though certainly no longer relevant to the older scientific needs of navigation, astronomy, geography, etc., other than as historical mathematics, has nevertheless seen a "rebirth" today due to simulation, game programming, Autodesk Maya, kinematics, physics engines, and many other new fields as diverse as optics, photography, art and medicine.

Maid Marian Entertainment

With Principal Instructor Certification from Alias/Wavefront on Maya and Power Animator, Gene's taught 3D modeling and animation for over ten years.

Ray tracing hardware

Software provided integration with Maya (see Autodesk Maya) and Max (see Autodesk 3ds Max) data formats, and utilized the Renderman scene description language for sending data to the processors (the .RIB or Renderman Interface Bytestream file format).


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