Imagery and Storage
Recent posts on the Scrum Master Certification course may not have been of much interest to those of you who are into geospatial. However, if you are into aerial and satellite imagery there was a tenuous link. Three of the participants were from a movie visual effects shop.
This company has worked on titles like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Their render farm generates a huge amount of imagery, and uses a massive amount of processing power. Here are some rough figures that I picked up during conversations:
- They render 30 frames per second, sometimes for an entire movie (I forgot to ask how large each frame image is).
- A single frame containing 3D artwork can take 5 hours to render.
- Automated processes combine frames into Quicktime sequences.
- They also have automated QA processes.
- They upgrade their storage capacity in about 5 terabyte chunks.
It would be interesting to see if some of the infrastructure and processes used in visual effects could be applied to earth imagery.
[tags]imagery, visual effects, aerial, satellite[/tags]