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From: upl@puff.WISC.EDU (Future Unix Gurus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
Message-ID: <725@puff.WISC.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 19:29:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 19:29:58 1987
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In article <1608@zeus.TEK.COM> bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) writes:
>In article <2058@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>>In article <2948@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>>>	If it makes you feel any better, I understand that the Genesis Demo
>>>from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Mr. Rork was computed on a VAX-11/7?0 with
>>>rather respectable speed.
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>>Well, yes, probably, but Tom Duff told me that the resolution of that piece
>>of work was only 512 X 512.  Really.  You can see the pixels on the edge of
>>the mountains if you try, it's not even hard...
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>Yes, but that was a desired effect.  They did versions of it at higher
>resolution from what I understand, but the requirements of the movie were
>for a grainy, "computer generated" feel so they shot it at low resolution
>off a Barco monitor.
>-- 

See? Even in film production, a little cleaverness can turn a bug into
a feature!  :)   :)  :)


Jeff Kesselman
captain@uhura.cs.wisc.edu

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