Bill Spitzak's Page

• My history with the movie industry
• Where I am working
• What am I doing now
• Are there any bad photos of me?
• Old title animation
• Bought a house
• I get an Academy Award

Software

 Software packages I have written, mostly Free/Open Source:

• fltk The "Fast, Light Tool Kit". A C++ Graphical User Interface Toolkit.
• flwm The "Fast Light Window Manager". Amuse yourself with my attempt to make a different window manager. Work in progress...
• xdiskusage Graphically display how much space each directory and file on your disk takes up.
• seahaven I updated the classic Unix solitare card game, with some code cleanup and new card images.
• Nuke by The Foundry. I am the primary author of this compositing package designed for use in special effects.

Art

• Paintings and Illustration
• Comics
• Gree Meets the Maker (USC animated short)
• My "Avatar"

Papers

• High-speed Conversion of Floating Point Images to 8-bit
• Old page I made when Titanic was in production
• Proposal for font transformations in the Cairo renderiing library
• Proposal for using 4x4 transforms to make radial gradients in Cairo.
• Proposed logo for FLTK
• Proposal to add '0' as a type to C++
• Proposal for a new window system Y to replace X11

Links

• Google:
• Free broadband speed test (using JS+Flash)
• Cairo, a likely replacement for Xlib for rendering
• Freedesktop.org, attempts to moderninze X, Cairo is only part of it
• Digital Domain
• The Foundry
• Internet Movie Database
• Really old list of links