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From: mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason)
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Subject: Re: New Use for .sw in ILM
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Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 11:07:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 16 11:07:11 1983
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>	Does ILM use computer generated CRT graphics?
Do they ever!  There are the obvious computer generated sequences:
pictures/diagrams of the death stars.  The other place you can see computer
generated graphics (although of a different sort) is in the extensive blue-
screening.  When I went to ROJ, we sat in the front row.  I found the movie
a bit dull, but spent lots of time looking at the rasters in the images.
Look particularly at the fight scene in the DS..all reasterized.  My estimate
of the resolution is about 4096 dots wide, although I would be interested in
corrections.  I'm almost tempted to go to see it again so I can look for
rasters throughout.  Seems to me there are some problems in the processing
in the desert scene & air-car that have been mentioned in this group.  There
were similar problems in SW just outside that bar: the shadows & aircars
have trouble tracking each other.
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