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From: paj@hrc63.uucp (Mr P Johnson "Baddow")
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: state of the business
Summary: TLS scenes were fixed.
Message-ID: <678@hrc63.uucp>
Date: 5 Sep 89 15:42:16 GMT
References: <4947@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: GEC Hirst Research Centre, Wembley, England. (uk.co.gec-rl-hrc)
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In article <4947@portia.Stanford.EDU>, rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) writes:
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> 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.


I read somewhere when TLS came out that the samples produced by the computer
animation people looked photographic.  The director asked them to cut down
the quality because he wanted it to look like computer graphics....

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Paul Johnson,         | `The moving finger writes, And having writ, moves on,'
GEC-Marconi Research  |                    Omar Kyham when contemplating `vi'.
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