“The Foundry this week announced that MARI, its industry-standard 3D painting package 3D digital painting tool used in films ‘Avatar’ and ‘The Avengers,’ is coming to the Mac,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider. “The developer, along with Oscar-winning animation studio Pixar, showed off MARI for OS X at WWDC this week, just 8 weeks after it began porting the software to the Mac.”
“MARI was shown running on the new cylindrical Mac Pro, demonstrating the work Pixar is doing with the software to complete its upcoming feature film ‘Monsters University,'” Hughes reports. “The Foundry shared with AppleInsider the story of how its team worked with the new Mac Pro in a room at Apple HQ known as the ‘Evil Lab’ ahead of the desktop’s unveiling. During the tests, the Mac Pro was entirely concealed in a giant steel cabinet, keeping its new design a mystery to The Foundry and Pixar.”
The next generation Mac Pro will be available later this year. To learn more, visit www.apple.com/mac-pro.
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When you choose to make it in the USA it is easier to keep a secret! (For now.)
Based on relative size difference between the old Mac Pro and new Mac Pro, Apple could have placed the entire new Mac Pro inside an emptied out (and locked) case of the old Mac Pro, with some internal cable connection, and the Pixar team would not have known about the new design.
This is a Masterpiece Machine! I definitely will get one !!!
“in a room at Apple HQ known as the ‘Evil Lab’
Named after our favourite search company.
With all of its security, including sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
As opposed to Samsung with their mutated sea bass.
I know the WWDC has Been NDAed but can anyone share there view on the performance of this machine based on the Lunch show?
You can go and see for yourself if you have a Developer account which is hardly a problem.
Go to https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/videos/
And then select Painting The Future.
Interesting video, you also get to see a new Mac Pro ‘in context’ during the demo and it is almost mind-buggeringly small: if it were hollowed-out and used as a vase, you’re talking maybe a half-dozen short-stemmed roses. I blend personal smoothies in a larger container.
Does anyone here know if there is any other company in the world that is so fanatical and goes to such great lengths to keep its road-map secret?
Samsung keeps theirs secret since they don’t know Apple’s.
One of these will look sweet sittin’ next to my G4 Cube 😉
from the design point of you, it is really the evolution of the G4 cube!!!
Getting one…
I think a lot of people are really missing the point of this machine. This is more than a new “design” from Apple. Its a total redesign focused on removing speed bottlenecks. The use of twin Graphics cards, faster bus, faster ram, PCIe Hard drive instead of SATA. In day to day high end design this thing will SCREAM…Also I would imagine that we will see a whole host of new storage options using Thunderbolt II that will blow Fibre Channel out of the water. This is truly more of a “workstation” than a Pee Cee.
All kinds of ignorant hate out there for this- I say ignorant because the chorus is “no ‘professional’ will want this!”, all being declared before use and with little to no experiential knowledge. (I’m looking right at you, John P. of GeekBeat.)
It’s true.
I’d say this was a generational step that builds on the kind of workstation-class systems that a company like Silicon Graphics used to produce when they were building the computers that helped to make movies like Jurassic Park or Terminator 2 before ILM went over to Linux-based technology in 2002 or thereabouts.
The difference being that it’s the size of a vase and delivers 7 teraflops as opposed to a small dishwasher offering megaflops.
Did the NSA know about the Mac Pro before WWDC?
Yes, and they tried to sneak in their own design which was shaped more like the Pentagon, but Apple insisted on the Mother Ship design. 🙂
They must keep things a secret. Otherwise, the IP stealers of the world (google, etc) or the gooks (samsung, etc) will copy their shit. These fucking parasites don’t know how to do anything until Apple shows them.
If they shot at you in the last 65 years you have the right to use any name you want.
The secret was out over 100 years ago. Thomas Edison got there first! Just shows how history repeats itself …
… An early information storage and retrieval device.
It looks like a Phonograph Cylinder!
Good one. 😀
I’m getting a bit worried the Mac Pro is unfairly becoming a laughing stock. People calling it The Tube, Mac Ashtray, etc, and lampooning it publicly can embarrass buyers and stymie sales. I would hate to see it fail due to the way it looks. Apple needs to make sure the general public knows this new Mac Pro is unrivalled on the PC side, not just a cool design.
7 teraflops is impressive enough, but all inside a package the size of a roll of paper towels!?? That’s just crazy-ass amazing.
Anyone who genuinely wants/needs a Mac Pro isn’t going to have that desire dissipated by some humorous joshing.
Largely because they’ll be doing less hours or earning more money than people who are using non-tubular PCs with their quaint hard drives.
So this is finally the components weve needed for years in a round fube and So everything a pro would need will all be breakout boxes and periferals. All connected by Thunderbolt. Hubs etc. Third party. A juiced up round Mac mini. Maxi. I hope wall street gets it. Weird to be weird.
Opnions, gentlemen? Are we going to see a Mac Mini redesign about a year from now that just happens to be black and round? Apple doesn’t normally introduce a new design language and let it languish in its smallest product line. Time to redecorate the home office …
The Evil Lab nice 😀