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When Ling Shizhe returned to Zhao Xiaoyun's house, it was already late at night, and when he saw Zhao Xiaoyun still watching TV in the living room, he said, "It's so late, why don't you sleep?" ”

"I'm waiting for you to come back, have you eaten, how are you talking?"

"After eating, let's talk about it well......" Then Ling Shizhe said the situation this afternoon. ◎ Top Novel,

"Who are you going to look for, the action director?"

Ling Shizhe took out two photos and handed them to him and said, "What do you think of these two people?" ”

Seeing the person in the photo, Zhao Xiaoyun said in surprise: "Isn't this person Lin Zhengying?" Isn't he Bruce Lee's royal martial artist, how did he come to our DreamWorks, and who is the other person, the two action directors? ”

"When Bruce Lee was there, he took him to Hollywood for a while, and it was very beautiful for a while, and after Bruce Lee died, Lin Zhengying was useless. Because he has seen the world in Hollywood and has been Bruce Lee's martial artist, he is reluctant to go to a small company, but what about a large company? He also has his own martial arts finger who won't invite him, so he can't do it low, and he can't sit on the mountain for a few months. Later, he entered Sammo Hung's "Hong Family Class" and became a dragon and tiger martial artist, and has been until now. Some time ago, he found DreamWorks and asked if our company wanted to be a martial artist, but Chen Bosen didn't dare to agree privately, so he told me......"

"So you thought that Star Wars was missing a martial artist, and he could just make up for it, right?"

Ling Shizhe replied: "It's not a martial arts finger, it's an action director, there are many oriental-style martial arts fighting scenes in the movie, and Hollywood directors can't shoot them, I plan to hand over all the martial arts scenes in the movie, including action editing, to him, Lucas is the chief director, responsible for drama and special effects." In addition, there is another reason why I chose him, that is, Lin Zhengying has stayed in Hollywood for a period of time and knows the shooting process and rules of Hollywood movies. ”

Zhao Xiaoyun thought for a moment and said: "In Hollywood's fighting scenes, Xiang Lai is the kind of fist-to-flesh fighting, and suddenly I saw a group of Westerners tied up with coercion and used Chinese kung fu on the screen...... I feel very awkward to fight like this, I think Chinese kung fu, or we Chinese only play good, Westerners? It's too inconsistent. ”

Westerners play Chinese kung fu in movies, it is indeed very awkward, the most famous is "The Matrix", the first time I saw Keanu Reeves, when he performed Chinese kung fu in the movie, I felt very surprised, but after watching it again, I always felt very awkward, the reason is that Westerners do not have the genes of martial arts culture in their bones, they only have boxing and Western swordsmanship.

Therefore, later, when Hollywood movies made this kind of action again, it was based on Israeli Krav Maga, with judo, boxing, Muay Thai, wrestling, sanda, free fighting and other martial arts, plus combined with fast and sharp editing, it was much more real and beautiful.

Although Ling Shizhe did a lot of surgery on Lucas's "Star Wars", the laser sword in it was retained by him, and the laser sword duel has always been the highlight of "Star Wars", and a large part of the audience watching "Star Wars" in addition to the exquisite characteristics is for this.

In his previous life, Ling Shizhe had seen an interview with Lucas, and he said that he joined laser sword fighting because he was influenced by Bruce Lee, so he wanted to add elements of Chinese kung fu to the film.

Since this is the case, Ling Shizhe simply pushed it and let Lin Zhengying direct the action scenes, making the film more watchable.

As for the fact that Westerners playing Chinese kung fu make people feel awkward, Ling Shizhe is not worried at all, you must know that this is "Star Wars", its background is space without gravity, the actor is tied to coercion and flies around in the spaceship, all the sense of disobedience disappears in the gravityless space environment, and it also gives people a pleasing sense of elegance.

In addition, the "Force" mentioned in the film also made Ling Shizhe feel inexplicable, the space fighter piloted by the villain Darth Vader in the original film could not hit the spaceship piloted by the protagonist, but Lucas interpreted it as the protagonist's "Force" explosion......

This explanation is also too nonsense, since it is set that only Jedi Knight has "Force", then can it be understood in this way, the so-called "Force" of the Jedi is actually the "small universe" of the Saint Seiya, or the "magic" of the magician, according to this line of thought, the most intuitive way to show the Jedi "Force" in the film is to add some magical fighting elements in the martial arts action, instead of the fighter plane piloted by the protagonist, you can't beat this egg-wrenching design.

"And who is this man?"

"He, his name is Yuan Lou, now his name has been changed to Jackie Chan, he is Sammo Hung 's younger brother," Ling Shizhe explained, "He was also a dragon and tiger martial artist, but he wanted to be an actor, so he came when the Hong Kong company recruited actors, he was very flexible and had a suitable figure, and he was a good candidate to play the panda man." ”

"Panda people? This role is to be able to play, but also to be funny, it is not easy to play at all, and makeup is also very time-consuming, after putting on makeup, the audience only sees that it is a live panda, what does he look like, the audience doesn't know at all, not to mention the hard work, or a thankless role, he is willing to endure this hardship? ”

Ling Shizhe nodded and said, "Don't worry, he can endure hardships better than you think." "Just kidding, Jackie Chan is notoriously crazy in filming, and if he can't even endure this bit of hardship, he won't be Jackie Chan.

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Early the next morning, Ling Shizhe came to the company and called Andy Grove to study the research and development plan of the RISC graphics computer.

RISC graphics computer is also called blade graphics server, very similar to blade server, in the original history, it was used to produce top movie special effects and three-dimensional animation films, because the computer in the 70s was still in the era of 8-bit computers, there is no place for it, so RISC graphics computer has not been included in the current research scope by Ling Shizhe.

But now that he has decided to shoot "Star Wars", the original PC graphics computer must not meet the requirements of special effects production, and the special effects technology required in it is much more than the original version, so Ling Shizhe had to take out the RISC graphics computer in advance.

Unlike ordinary computers, the brain of graphics computers is not CPU, but GPU chips, the so-called GPU is a concept relative to CPU, the full name is GraphicProcessing Unit, Chinese translated as "graphics processor".

In the early days, GPUs mainly relied on the processing power of the CPU when processing images and special effects, but after the 3D era, the structural design of the GPU has undergone a major change, that is, it can perform independent computing without relying on the processing power of the CPU, which laid the foundation for the blade structure of the graphics computer.

Before the advent of image servers, movie effects were processed on PC graphics computers, which was time-consuming and time-consuming. With the advent of the blade graphic server, it quickly became popular in Hollywood as it was possible to handle more complex effects on PC graphics workstations, not only because of the difficulty that they used to be handled on PC graphics workstations.

The GPU designed by Ling Shizhe takes the route of NVIDIA, which can support T&L (TransformAndLighting, polygon conversion and light source processing) display chip from the hardware, T&L is an important part of 3D rendering, its role is to calculate the 3D position of polygons and process dynamic light effects, which can also be called "geometric processing".

T&L is simply put, three-dimensional image and special effects processing technology, it was born in the 60s of Bell Labs, most of the early computer operations on T&L are processed by the CPU, which is the so-called "soft acceleration", this kind of graphics processing method is okay in the 2D era, because at that time the CPU was not much graphics data to calculate, so it was still coped with.

In the 3D era, it is not good, the graphics data that needs to be processed in the 3D era is increased by dozens of times, hundreds of times or even thousands of times, so that the CPU can not cope with it gradually, and the CPU task is originally heavy, in addition to T&L, it is necessary to do non-3D graphics processing work such as memory management and input response, so the performance will be greatly reduced in the actual operation, and the graphics card often waits for CPU data, and its operation speed is far from keeping up with the requirements of complex three-dimensional games.

In order to solve this problem, NVIDIA first proposed the concept of GPU when it released the Geforce256 graphics processing chip in 1999, that is, it supports T&L operation on the hardware, so as to reduce the dependence of the graphics card on the CPU, and carry out part of the original CPU work, to achieve the so-called "hard acceleration".

This is a milestone design, which allows the computer to add another brain, and to perform parallel operations with the original CPU, so that the performance of the computer is greatly improved, especially in 3D computing.

T&L is an important part of 3D rendering, its role is to calculate the 3D position of polygons and process dynamic light effects, a good T&L unit, can provide detailed 3D objects and advanced light effects, now it is only the 70s, not to mention 3D, even 2D is not yet, so Ling Shizhe in the design of GPU, the requirements for T&L are not high, he has made a lot of deletions to the T&L unit, cut off a lot of unnecessary functions, Only the most basic environment material maps and vertex blending, texture compression and bump mapping mapping, dual texture functions are retained, the color processing is 18 colors, and the GPU's floating-point arithmetic and parallel arithmetic and linear arithmetic capabilities are improved as much as possible.

The GPU is named ATI and uses the HLSL source code.

Brook is a high-level language designed for GPU computing that does not require graphics knowledge, it is an extension of C language, and it has the advantage of being up to 7 times faster than writing source code in traditional assembly language under the same conditions.

GPU is the "heart" of the graphics card, which is equivalent to the role of the CPU in the computer, and the integrated graphics card is to make the display chip, video memory and its related circuits on the motherboard, and integrate with the motherboard; A discrete graphics card is a display chip, video memory and related circuits made on a separate circuit board, which is self-contained and exists as an independent board.

If you want to make the CPU and graphics card cooperate with each other to maximize work efficiency, you must install the graphics card driver, which Ling Shizhe used to use the DirectX program commonly used in later generations, referred to as DX driver.

To put it simply, DirectX is a GPU universal computing interface developed by Microsoft, which is a hardware driver standard that allows game developers to reduce the complexity of installing and setting up hardware without having to write different drivers for each brand of hardware.

For example, when early computer gamers played games under DOS, they were not like now, they could play on installation, they often had to set the brand and model of the sound card first, and then set IRQ (interrupt), I/O (input and output), DMA (access mode), if any of the settings were wrong, then the game sound could not be emitted.

This part of the setting is not only nerve-wracking for players, but also a headache for game developers, because in order for the game to run correctly in many computers, developers must collect all the sound card hardware data on the market at the beginning of game production, and then write different drivers according to different APIs (application programming interfaces), which is difficult for game production companies to complete, which is why early computers can't catch up with game consoles in games.

Microsoft saw this problem and launched a common application programming interface for all manufacturers - DirectX, as long as the game is developed according to DirectX, no matter what graphics card you have, sound card, all can be played, and it can play better.

After sending Grove away, Ling Shizhe rested for a while and went to the conference room to attend the meeting of senior managers of the Ambrera Group.

The Senior Managers Meeting is the highest decision-making committee within Ambrera, and its members are: Tao Cheng'an, head of the ceramics division; William, President of Ambrera Retail. Moms; Jim, president of Apple; Head of the Battery Business Unit and President of Ambrera Hong Kong Industries, and Vice President of Ambrera Group Foster; Hawke, Executive Officer, Software Division; Nion, head of the North American laboratory; Mark Mark, Head of the Hong Kong Laboratory; Wang Haihua, President of the Hong Kong Computer College; Head of the Electrical Division, John Brown. Martin; Christopher, head of Seiko Division; Han Gang, President of Greensheng Bank, Hong Kong; Zhou Yuanhang, President of China National Aircraft Industry Corporation; Zhao Xiaoyun, President of DreamWorks; Alex, Head of Aerodynamics; Clark, President of Ambrera Environmental & Desalination Treatment; Allison, president of Ambrera Headquarters, and Ling Shizhe himself.

These sixteen people are the core decision-making level of Ambrera company, today is the first time Ambrera held a senior manager meeting, there has never been before, Ling Shizhe has anything to do many times directly with the relevant person in charge, but as Ambrera company is getting bigger and bigger, more and more things are encountered, the previous management method can no longer adapt to the company's future development, so at Alison's suggestion, Ling Shizhe decided to start this year, hold a senior manager meeting every quarter, to determine the future direction of Ambrera.

The meeting was chaired by Alison, and after Ling Shizhe's nod, Alison started the first topic of the day, "The first issue I will discuss today is the company's asset restructuring. As we all know, Ambrera has many departments and many subsidiaries, and the ownership of these companies and departments is very confusing, for example, Ambrera Industries belongs to Ambrera Corporation, and Ambrera belongs to Ambrera Corporation of the United States, and China Aircraft Company belongs to Ambrera Corporation, which belongs to Ambrera Corporation, and at the same time belongs to Ambrera Industries; Ambrera Environmental Treatment & Desalination Company is a subsidiary of Ambrera Corporation of the United States. My God! It's too messy, so the first thing we did today was to sort out the relationship between the companies, and it's time for some departments to become independent. ”

Clark agreed: "I agree, the relationship between companies is so messy, it creates a lot of unnecessary burden and confusion in management, and it's time to reorganize." ”

"Agree ......"

"I agree to the restructuring."

"I agree."

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"Ok, I have no opinion, does the company have any specific arrangements?"

Seeing that everyone agreed, Ling Shizhe nodded to Alison and asked him to come up with a reorganization plan and give it to everyone to discuss. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! ）