Leaving Rhino development

Hi,

For more than eleven years I have worked with pleasure on Rhino and rendering technologies, first integrating Cycles as Raytraced, then also seeing it drive the Rhino Render solution. It has been a pleasure seeing all the work created with these in the gallery here has been great.

Begin March I will be starting a new position at another company for a unique opportunity in exciting research and development.

As such my active involvement here on Discourse as a Rhino developer will end this month. With questions regarding cycles in raytraced and rhino-render you should contact @andy , @lars or @DavidEranen . I’ll probably lurk still as @jesterking .

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Thanks for all the support and good luck

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Hi @nathanletwory

Sorry to hear that you are leaving, but good luck in your future endeavours! Thanks for all the support over the years and big thanks for all your hard and dedicated work on integrating Cycles in Rhino :slight_smile:

All the best, Jakob

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Thanks Nathan, for all your work and help you provided during all those years. You’ve always been very helpful to me, and everyone else here on the forum. Your active participation on this forum will be missed!

I wish you a great new adventure at your new work location,
Veel geluk!

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all the best - and have a great journey.

thanks for all your support.

(picture from your great lego importer topic )

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Thanks, Nathan!
You’ve always been a huge help with all my questions (even the silliest ones). You’ve always been there to lend a hand! A big thank you, and I wish you much success in your exciting projects! We’ll miss you.

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Veel succes Nathan!

Dankjewel voor meer dan 11 jaar bijdragen aan Rhino.

Groet en het ga je goed!
-Willem

Good luck Nathan!

Thank you for over 11 years of contributing to Rhino.

Best wishes and all the best!

-Willem

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Thanks for your effort on developing Rhino!
I’m sure your next company worth the change so I wish you all the best!

Is always sad :face_holding_back_tears: when kids become adult :grin:

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It’s unfortunate to hear such news. In any case, thank you for your efforts.

Over the past two years, Rhino has lost some of its most prominent developers. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

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C’mon, 1st of April is still more than two months ahead!

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Thanks for all the support over the years and your amazing contributions to Rhino.
Best of luck for what’s to come. :saluting_face:

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Hi @nathanletwory

Thanks for your help and dedication to making Rhino a better program and for sharing your Blender knowledge and the 3dm import plugin.
All the best on your new endeavor.

RM

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You can take Rhino away from the person, but you can’t take Rhino out of the person. 11 years is a long time to give of your time and effort.

Best of luck to you Nathan

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@nathanletwory - dude, I’m going to miss you!

I can’t count all the times you’ve helped with some sort of development edge case, thank you SO MUCH for all of you effort there.

Good luck with the future and I hope you’ll come back and tell us what it is when you can.

Cheers

DK

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Hi @nathanletwory,

thank you very much for your great support in this forum, and how you have pushed Rhino further, we will miss you.

Take care

Michael

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Thank you all for the kind words. I don’t know yet what I should fill the gaping hole with that now will be left in my day. Time that I’d usually spend on this forum. I guess I’ll need to find some new form of fun.

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What you accomplished with the Cycles integration is truly appreciated as a major improvement in Rhino. Thank you.

I hope that some of that gaping hole can be used to offer consultation and support to the Rhino developers who try to fill your shoes.

You are a great friend to the Rhino community and we would be delighted if you could keep us abreast of your new endeavors.

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You’ve done amazing work! Thank you so much for helping to move Rhino forward and all of your support on the forum. You will be missed. Hope your new opportunity is as successful as your time at McNeel.

Oh man, I totally missed this! Fare the well man.

Maybe you’d like an anecdote to let you know the impact you’ve made. When I started teaching Rhino and rendering 10 years ago, we had to teach them either VRay or Maxwell. Both have taken away free student versions, and so if we wanted to teach them these, they would have to pay.

But right at the time this was happening, Cycles came in to save the day, and has made it so that students can learn to render on a very good engine that will be free forever. And being able to do this on Rhino, not just being stuck with quaint old Rhino Render, is down to you my friend. So thank you for your impact.

Thanks for all the commiseration and advocacy in the Rhino on Linux world! Feel free to have your pal @jesterking reach out to stay in touch.

Thank you for the anecdote. It is always great to hear stories from users who have found benefit from my work. Much appreciated!