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- From: ins534z@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Quetzal)
- Subject: Re: The Last Starfighter
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:47:44 GMT
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- car-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
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- <stuff about The Last Starfighter>
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- >and then fed it all into a ray-tracer/rendering system. Apparently it took some
- >super-fast computer (well fast in those days) over three weeks solid processing
- >to finish about 25 minutes of animation. Just thought I'd bring that one up.
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- I am told it was a Cray that they used. (Don't know which model. Wigs here
- says it was an X- something . . .) Crays are still fast by today's standards.
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- Compare that with the Ballroom scene in "Beauty and the Beast" (Had to
- bring it up again): It took 2.5 to 4.5 hours to render every frame (granted,
- they weren't using a Cray [don't know what they *were* using, actually,
- though the software was from PIXAR]), making for a total of 500 days of
- rendering time . . .
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- (Over three *weeks*! How dreadfully slow! <Diabolical laughter> )
-
- Tim Pickett.
- quetzal@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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