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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 3D Objects
Message-ID: <612@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 91 20:04:00 GMT
References: <4317@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <4317@mindlink.UUCP> a763@mindlink.UUCP (Scott Busse) writes:
|The Enterprise flybys wer done using a motion controlled camera flying past a
|*very* large model of the Enterprise, something like 50 feet long. Before Star
|Trek, The Next Generation came on the air, Entertainment Tonight did some
|behind the scenes shots, one being at Industrial Light and Magic, where the big
|model is filmed. It sure is unfortunate that the transfer from the original
|film to NTSC introduces so much aliasing effect ( visible around the saucer
|section), but my brain shuts that out quite quickly...
|
|Scott


ET also had a segment which showed that the dry-dock the Enterprise was shown
in in the first few ephisodes of the season was computer generated...