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- From: dev2@inform.co.nz (Michael Seales)
- Subject: Re: That T2 motorcycle jump... Not real, just magic
- Sender: news@inform.co.nz (News daemon)
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:26:03 GMT
- References: <C15t3M.4Fy@athena.cs.uga.edu> <viking.727599177@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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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, it was real. What was bullshit is him riding away from it.
- >
- >
- > >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.
- >
- > Well, anyway the bike did make the jump. Just very slowly. How
- > did they get the suspension to compress that much when they showed the
- > landing, though, not to mention the sparks and the like?
-
- I haven't seen the making, but they could have removed the springs from the
- suspension, both front and rear, and the sparks could be created by anything
- from computer graphics to fireworks.
-
- Mike
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