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- From: alex@csn.org (ALEX MATTHEWS)
- Subject: Re: That T2 motorcycle jump... Not real, just magic
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.161350.1763@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <C15t3M.4Fy@athena.cs.uga.edu> <viking.727599177@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:13:50 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <viking.727599177@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
- >weaver@castor.cs.uga.edu (Mike Weaver) writes:
- >
- >>No they didn't trash the bike in the movie. The jump was indeed bullshit.
- >>They had guy wires on the bike to guide it gently to the ground. They then
- >>digitally edited the frames and wiped out the wires. Just another example
- >>of the use of computers in mainstream movies.
- >
- > That's not what I read in rec.moto when the movie first came out.
- >If you can't trust the net for facts, what can you... Oh. Sorry.
-
- The Winter 1993 issue of Skeptical Enquirer has an article entitled
- "Photographic Proof? Not For Long" that details many of the recent
- computer-retouched films, including T2. Realism (suspension compression
- on impact, etc.) is a direct function of the sturdiness of the
- contraption that does the "flying". The better the touch-up technology,
- the more obtrusive and sturdy the contraption may be:
-
- "Wire removal has figured in numerous big-budget films. The zero-gravity
- assasination sequence in Star Trek VI used wire removal as well as
- computer graphics to create the floating blobs of "blood" that spilled
- from the floating Klingon victims. The slow-motion sequence in Terminator
- 2 in which Arnold Schwarzenegger jumps a motorcycle off a bridge and
- into the dry bed of the Los Angeles River was not slow motion at all;
- the bike was held in a bulky steel cage, suspended from thick cables,
- and lowered on a crane at about the speed you see on the screen. Then
- all the support hardware was removed (by computer)." SI Winter 1993
-
-
- --
- - Alex Matthews (new address: alexm.csn.org)
-
- "A typical Grand Prix race. High noon. Tension mounts. Throttles clench."
- Patricia Zonker, _Murdercycles_
-