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From: rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: state of the business
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Date: 30 Aug 89 15:24:28 GMT
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When I posted the initial question I was wondering why, when the quality
of realism was increasing, fewer were being used in movies.
For example, I was startled to learn the seawater creature in Abyss was
computer-synthetic (described in RenderMan Companion) rather than model-based.
Also, the synthetic human beings in some of this year's SIGGRAPH clips look
almost real and so does the city beneath the balloon.  This is in contrast
to the space scenes in The Last Starfighter, although they required
megabucks of Cray time, they appeared artificial.