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From: car@pte.UUCP (Chris Rende)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,comp.graphics
Subject: Star Trek II graphics: "The Genesis Effect"
Keywords: star trek graphics genesis
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Date: 15 Sep 88 13:21:03 GMT
Organization: Precise Technology & Electronics, Warren, MI
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The cover of the book "The Unix Operating System" by Kaare Christian features
a scenic view of a lake and some mountains. The book describes picture as
"a single frame of a one-minute sequence known as the _Genesis Effect_, which
was created in 1982 for the motion picture _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_".
The book goes on to explain that the computer group at Lucasfilm used computer
graphics to create the one-minute 1620 frame sequence. No artwork or physical
models were used.

And of course what operating system was used? UNIX. It took up to 5 hours and
50 programs to produce a single frame.

car.
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