Labels:book | crt screen | daily | person | poster | rotogravure | school newspaper | sky OCR: 474 CHAPTER COMPUTERS IN CONTEXT Film IN 1895. eager Parisians crowded into a busy tive attempts ar computer- -generated footage 30 cafe watch the first public presentation of an minutes of computer- -generated imagery (CGI) cre- exciting new invention- -the Cinematogr aph. The ated by two Cray X-MP supercomputers. 10- -minute film, mostly scenes of everyday life, was CGI uses rendering techniques to create a 3-D scene smashing success and ushered in the motion pic- from 2-D image camera angle and light ture era. Early films were short, grainy, grayscale source Sophisticated algorithms determine how tex- and silent, but technology quickly improved. In the tures, colors, and shadows appear in the rendered New York debut of The Jazz Singer (1927) AJ Jolson scene Camera angles can be changed ...
