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- From: ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ)
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- Subject: Re: The Last Starfighter
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 11:13:35 GMT
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- In <721406214.27609@minster.york.ac.uk> car-a@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
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- >I don't know if anyone particularly remembers The Last Starfighter. While the
- >film itself WAS pretty crap, the graphics were absolutely spectacular - for
- >thier time. All of the space-flight and combat sequences were computer graphics
- >and I seem to remember them being astonishingly seamless. I read somewhere that
- >they actually constructed and animated all of the sequnces using a CAD program
- >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.
-
- What got me about that film was that after all the emphasis that was placed
- on the CAD stuff, the result looked neither real, nor all that computer-
- generated - it simply looked like a bunch of models (IMHO).
- Shame, really.
-
- Andy
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- Andy Lewis (ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk) |
- Department of Electronics | A juggler without a theme...
- and Computer Science |
- University of Southampton |
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