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Subject: The Last Starfighter.
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Date: Mon, 28-May-84 00:37:45 EDT
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From:  Peter G. Trei <OC.TREI@CU20B>

	The June issue of High Technology magazine contains an excellent
article on computer graphics, including the following tidbits on Digital
Productions' work for the movie THE LAST STARFIGHTER:
	The work is being done on a Cray X-MP, printed on 70 mm film at a
resolution of 4000 x 6000, at a pace of about one minute per day. Unlike TRON,
the images include transparency and reflections, as well as fractal landscapes.
	Some detail is also provided on the Genesis bomb sequence from ST-TWOK,
and other developments in the field.

						Peter Trei
						oc.trei%cu20b@columbia-20


ps: The back cover of the paperback of the movie has a small image of
a spacecraft from the film.		pt
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