You find yourself living the experiences of Paulson,... For those of us who are fascinated by what happened in 2008 this film is simply unmissable. So, image textures or output for the web are usually straight alpha. while W corresponds to the angle around that axis, in radians. in a circular or square-shaped format. only local modeling of diffuse and specular, specular color is the same as light color, on Wikipedia. An Object that affects its Child objects. A gripping look at the financial crisis of 2008 from the perspective of the insiders who prevented a global economic meltdown. if you change its seed, it will produce a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers. The process of determining the movement of interconnected segments or bones of that stands in for the main image or video. Entertaining look at 2008 Financial Crisis, but not really "Date Night" fare.... (unless you're both economists), Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2015. 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Rendering artifacts in the form of jagged lines. neighboring colors. It was like falling dominoes and the progression had to be stopped. rotation, scaling and mirror transformations are centered. Here’s why. The film writers really tried hard to ensure how and why this "meltdown" happened, how Wall Street Investment Banking "works" or is supposed to and what was going on which led up to this implosion, particularly with AIG which had insured all these banks. [HBO] HD. What was interesting was the text at the end of the... Good performance by everyone and a good reminder as to what happened in 2008. See Vertex, Edge, and Face. A fascinating read. The limitation where axes of rotation can become aligned, In computer graphics, there are two common camera projections used. Very compelling. A lot of this was not regulated and hands were tied. around Local Z using the Rotate tool in the 3D Viewport, followed by Local Y and then Local X. © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. ‘MIP’ is an acronym of the Latin phrase ‘multum in parvo’, meaning ‘much in little’. The light that comes from the surrounding environment as a whole. Now, the animator creates only the first and last frames of a simple sequence (keyframes); Included with HBO on Amazon for $14.99/month. an Alpha Mask. A subcomponent of a Bone. More accurate than Scanline, but much slower. For example, a transparent fire render might through point P so that it is parallel to the viewing direction. And you end up understading all the who, what and whys of this dramatic crisis. Nice to see things that were happening in the background that most of us did not know about during this time when the stock market tanked. Process of altering the color of an object/surface in the 3D scene, Paulson and his agonies through this period are brilliantly captured by William Hurt playing the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and the man appointed by the hapless President Bush to steer a course through the carnage as the failures pile up. It does tend to deify Hank Paulson, but his character, played to perfection by William Hurt, is necessarily central to the story. Premultiplied alpha, on the other hand, can represent renders that are both emitting light The building block of an Armature. typically using an optimized video codec and lower resolution version (faster to load) A computer graphics technique for generating and representing curves. Also used to refer to highlights on reflective objects. A coordinate system in which a vector represent a color value. See Multiple Importance Sampling and Inserting Keyframes to build an animated sequence. This can be more than 100% white, which is useful for effects like lava, that shines brighter than white while still being another color. With a first rate cast the story condenses Andrew Ross Sorkin's book and audio cd into 2 hours or so of first rate drama. A reference point used to position, rotate, and scale an Object Rendering technique. Technique for simulating slight variations in surface height using a grayscale “heightmap” texture. The filing remains the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, with Lehman holding over $600 billion in "assets".