Yes. Multiple meanings.. gay pride, but also pride in our work, and in producing the first product of its kind for Apple machines, and pride in the small team of us that made it happen within VMware.

With zenphoton I really wanted to keep the user interaction model as simple as possible, since part of the 'zen' was in the drawing experience itself.

I made a more complex tool based on the same raytracing style, called High Quality Zen (HQZ). It has some support for representing curves as many small line segments with interpolated normals.

https://github.com/scanlime/zenphoton/tree/master/hqz

It's supposed to save the exposure in that link, and when I click the link it does open with a non-default exposure value. Hmm!

Somewhat relatedly, after zenphoton.com I made a tool called High Quality Zen (HQZ) which uses a similar algorithm to do high quality off-line rendering. I made this video with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obbew_7_Xo8

Hey, this is beth from scanlime.org. I was doing my best to keep the site up, but it looks like Dreamhost just pulled the plug. I'm pretty annoyed with this.

oh HN managed a DDoS again

608 points should be around 60.000 visitors. Thats something any site should be able to handle, but ...

http://dreamhost.com/servers/vps/ <- All VPS plans come with UNLIMITED Bandwidth and Storage.

UNLIMITED ... till they pull the plug lol

But it might also just be that the site is overloaded. I sometimes get an "Error establishing a database connection" and sometimes "Problem loading page". So there is still a server who desperately tries to answer requests.

What kind of server do you have at dreamhost? A VPS? Is that VPS some Viruozzo/OpenVZ crap, or a Xen instance?

The post is also on the front page of the technology subreddit so that is probably pulling in a few thousand more people too.

I saw the headline and immediately said to myself "I bet that server's already dead."