If you've been in a movie theater recently, you may have seen a trailer for a mixed live action and animation spectacle called How To Train Your Dragon. Having seen the purely animated original - and wished I had gone to a 3D showing as the flight scenes must have been amazing - it was a bit unsettling, as the animated dragon in the new looks exactly like the one in the old. It's apparent a shot-for-shot remake of the original, but this time with live human actors. So effectively a port of a script from one cinematic language to another. In a similar vein, at last week's J.P. Morgan Conference, Illumina and NVIDIA announced they will start porting Illumina's DRAGEN applications onto NVIDIA GPU hardware.
