Real-time view of Durian sales

Bart · August 19, 2009

Despite just having become a father last week, JesterKing has already picked up coding again and has hacked together a real-time (well, updated every 5 minutes) graph of the Durian sales. The height of the graph represents 2000. Each dark gray horizontal line represents 500, where the lighter gray are 250. More info on his blog. Haven’t ordered yet? Here’s your chance!

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

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MmAaXx

19 August 2009 at 16:42

strange that so many DVDs are still unsold…

wait september …

Caster

19 August 2009 at 16:43

Ditch the compiler and play with the kid!! -sorry.. I guess I like kids too much.. then again.. you are the father of your tracking app.. so I guess you are playing with your children.. >.>.. I’m McSorrylet for all this..

thetinytoon

19 August 2009 at 16:49

Did my part, did my part! :)

Enrique Flores

19 August 2009 at 16:51

Well guys, you have to take in mind that the whole American Continent is broke!!! Europeans maybe have no idea. but we are ine the middle of an economis crisis.

Magiciandude

19 August 2009 at 17:08

I pre-ordered mine! I’m so excited!!!

Xenon

19 August 2009 at 17:18

Crisis? hah. You do not know the right meaning of the word “crisis” unless you can buy food in the shop nearby:D

BetaSector

19 August 2009 at 18:59

Enrique, we are in a crisis too. We can’t even pay our bills properly here in Hungary.

Nathan Letwory

19 August 2009 at 19:05

@Caster – of course I focus on my kids first! This script was written last night when jesterPrincess was crying a lot and just being awake. While having her on my lap, playing with her, I very well can write some simple PHP code every now and then :)

Nothing to be LetSorry about!

/Nathan

horace

19 August 2009 at 19:16

hm… the extrapolation of that curve doesn’t look very promising…

patrox

19 August 2009 at 20:02

@horace

I hope it’s possible to interpret it as a third degree equation or any other increasing degree, then there is a hope, but it look too much like an ln function… try to change some parameters in maclaurin equation for ln then you might could find some hope…

A question, what happens if the durian team doesn’t sell 2000 DVDs?

Toontje

19 August 2009 at 20:03

Extrapolated it wouldn’t even make 750 units. I hope this will get a boost on the next pay day.
Hopefully Durian will get more main stream sponsor like Divx did. These high quality open movies are an ideal testbed for the sponsor’s own technology (like divx is doing now and hopefully those other 3D projection stuff potential sponsors, renderfarms companies, etc etc)

oenvoyage

19 August 2009 at 20:07

I think it would be interesting to see the graphs for the other open movies, to know if there are peaks like when the movie goes final public.
if i were rich i would buy 50 right now just to make a funny shape on that line :)

Gryphon

19 August 2009 at 20:44

I’m a broke American too! I pre-ordered Durian anyway — it’s that important! I’m not quite doing without food just yet, but I’m pinching every penny. I see this as a small investment, the return on which will benefit both the Blender Foundation and myself. Not to mention, the more money the Durian Team gets from us now, the better Blender 2.50 and 2.51 (or at least 2.50a) will be for everyone! That’s got to be worth it, right?

Clint

19 August 2009 at 20:58

@Toontje: Huh? When I extrapolated it (somewhat linearly), it came out to around 1200-1400 units. Are you perhaps mixing up the 250-worth lines and the 500-worth lines? Or are you assuming that the curve will continue a flattening trend?

I imagine that the first blog updates of production concepts could do a lot to boost sales as well — IIRC, that’s what happened with Apricot.

xolotl

19 August 2009 at 20:59

I already had bought a DVD if it wasnt that expensive. 34â‚¬ is okay, but the additional taxes and shipping fees make it too expensive for me……..

demohero

19 August 2009 at 21:13

It would be very good to e-download the DVD and pay for it via paypal. Will there be a chance to download the Durian DVD via web site?

Alex Blank

19 August 2009 at 21:52

Is there the ability to pay by check? I don’t do credit card purchases over the interweb, but would still like to see money go to Blender 2.5 development…

horace

20 August 2009 at 00:00

something changed in the last few hours. now the extrapolation looks a bit better! :)

TxRx

20 August 2009 at 00:14

Gotta love those MRTG-like graphs, I must admit that the unit cost for this one is slightly hampered by the piss poor exchange rate the pound to euro is atm.

I’ll pre-order, no doubt, but it’ll be once I get some other things tended to 1st :D

Caster

20 August 2009 at 00:21

BTW Jester: I’m Dwee from SMC :D -miss you guys ^^

ethana2

20 August 2009 at 05:04

I paid for one to get my name in the credits but had it sent to a kid in Brisbane because the discs didn’t come with .ogg theora or dirac. When google opens the source and patents behind On2’s VP8, I expect a VP8 version to ship on those discs. Maybe I’ll actually want a set, and pay for another one.

ethana2

20 August 2009 at 05:08

While I appreciate all the work that goes into these projects and into blender, I find doing them in the name of advancing open source and then turning around and dismissing open source codecs for their physical distribution quite hypocritical.

tyrant monkey

20 August 2009 at 10:08

@ethana2 The open movie projects are not done in the name of advancing open source, the are done in the name of advancing Blender even if other open source tools are used. Personally i dislike the mess that all codecs have generated. Having to wade through an alphabeta soup of codecs to watch video p*sses me off to no great end.

Back on topic I wish I had a credit card to contribute getting 3 dvds for 34 euros is great deal and the money goes to a great endeavour such as this.

Gryphon

20 August 2009 at 20:30

@tyrant monkey:
I don’t know the situation in different areas, but PayPal can be used with a bank account, so you shouldn’t need a credit card if that’s all that’s stopping you…

brecht

21 August 2009 at 02:20

ethana2, the Big Buck Bunny DVD does have the movie in Ogg Theora format.

tyrant monkey

21 August 2009 at 10:45

@Gryphon I thought about that especially trying to get some foundation dvds to advance my knowledge etc but according to the law here I can’t really use paypal to do money transfers and all.

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