Arnold Renderer's name came from "Arnold Schwarzenegger"
- fxguide : The Art of Rendering
1999 A renderer is not normally an end product like a paint program is, and thus in many respects it is an API that allows programs to access it for rendering models and animations created up stream in the process. Hence it was that Arnold was initially called RenderAPI. But in 1999 Fajardo was working with Station X Studios in LA. One night he went with two friends to an Arnold Schwarzenegger film, End of Days. Again according to Haines, Fajardo friends “imitated the Arnold accent from the rear of the theater, cracking up the audience.” Fajardo had never realized what a distinctive voice Schwarzenegger had, since he had only seen Schwarzenegger’s films in Spain, where they’re dubbed in Spanish. “They just impersonated him.. and one of them was a stand up comedian ; and pretty good,” he laughingly recalls. Andy Lesniak, one of the friends at the theater, suggested “Arnold” as a joke, and Fajardo liked it. “So I thought ; what the Hell ; I will call it Arnold, but I did expect to change it but I never did.” The code name was picked up by people, so the name became permanent.
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- 最近, Google 検索で レンダラーの方の意味で "Arnold" と検索したことがありました.
- そうしたときに、アーノルド・シュワルツネッガーの画像が沢山出てきたので「無関係のシュワちゃんの画像が出てきたwww」と思っていました.
- しかし, 元々 レンダラーの方の Arnold の名前の由来は開発者らがアーノルド・シュワルツネッガーの映画"End of Days"(上図を参照)を見て、彼の話し方のモノマネをしてふざけていたことに起因してレンダラーのコードネームにしていたので、「無関係ではなくて寧ろ関係があった」, ということが fxguide の記事を読んでわかりました.
- >> シュワちゃんへ てっきり無関係だと思ってしまって、すみませんでした.
