Anton Karas asked a stunned Karas if he would compose the music for the film. Karas protested, saying he had never actually written music. As Karas later told the story, the director insisted and invited Karas to England. The Austrian became homesick and asked to be allowed to return. Reed told him he could—as soon as he had written the music. Under this pressure Karas wrote his Harry Lime theme. The film—with the music a contributing factor—was a gigantic success, and Karas' life was changed drastically. As a result, he toured all over the world and performed for many celebrities, among them
Chris Korda first color 3D printer in 2004. Korda created in 2005 the VJ software Whorld, an open-source visualizer that utilizes math in order to create psychedelic animation and artwork. In 2006, Korda released FFRend, a "Parallel-processing renderer for Freeframe V1 video effect plugins". In 2008, Korda designed Fractice, a fractal renderer. Korda is also an inventor of music software, such as Waveshop (2013), a bit-perfect lossless free audio editor, reviewed in several websites. She is also the creator of ChordEase (2014). This is a free software that is compatible with any MIDI instrument and essentially it makes notes easier to play.