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From: hjespersen@trillium.waterloo.edu (Hans Jespersen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Star Trek II graphics: "The Genesis Effect"
Keywords: star trek graphics genesis
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Date: 11 Oct 88 19:55:56 GMT
References: <277@pte.UUCP> <523@epicb.UUCP> <12672@oberon.USC.EDU> <1486@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
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In article <1486@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) writes:
>In article <12672@oberon.USC.EDU> ahoffman@skat.usc.edu (Alan M. Hoffman) writes:
> >An interesting sidebar to the "Genesis Effect" article is that all of those
> >funky "particle" sequences--the random "flames" and the wave effect--were
> >generated using fractical math.
>
>Sorry, they were generated with a "particle system".  This has
>nothing to do with fractals other than the fact that both use
>random numbers and can be used for "data-base enhancement."

The portion of "The Genesis Effect" that DOES include fractals is the
landscape. It was (fractally) generated using triangular recursive
subdivision. Loren Carpenter led the team that produced the computer
generated portions in the movie. He is best known for his short fractal
film "Vol Libre".


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