Title: Inside Pixar's Leadership Post by: kram1032 on April 30, 2010, 11:36:06 AM I *hope*, this is the right place...
http://economistevents.pb.feedroom.com/economist/economistevents/oneclipyellow/player.html?fr_story=a74b1a498ea281b404b0698b9f3103f8fcd6f6d2 A talk with Ed Catmull, Pixar and Disney Animation Studios President :) I'm not entirely sure, wether he knows himself, but he actually says, that a company needs to be unstable, to be successful. Basically like a strage attractor :) He also mentions self similarity, once. (However, a computer genius like him probably knows about fractals, so he should know what he's referencing.) Title: Re: Inside Pixar's Leadership Post by: cKleinhuis on April 30, 2010, 11:55:09 AM chaotic formations tend to be very stable, e.g. the red dot on the saturn
but also soliton waves are extremely stable and chaotic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton Title: Re: Inside Pixar's Leadership Post by: Tabasco Raremaster on October 18, 2010, 06:30:28 PM Pixar kicks butt being surprisingly awesome all the time. I love the humor in their shorts a lot. I guess it is his humor , knowing to what he is referencing to. |