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From: loren@pixar.UUCP (Loren Carpenter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Star Trek II graphics: "The Genesis Effect"
Keywords: star trek graphics genesis
Message-ID: <2537@pixar.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 88 18:53:13 GMT
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In article <2908@utah-gr.UUCP> u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu.UUCP@utah-gr.UUCP (John M. Olsen) writes:
   >But I would have to agree with Dave that the Genesis Effect doesn't look
   >like a fractal system.  Neither is "white sand", a particle system picture
   >of some desert grass that is on the cover of Geometric Modeling, by Michael
   >E Mortenson.  I don't know where the picture came from originally.

"White Sands" was made by Alvy Ray Smith at Lucasfilm in about 1983.  I know,
because I was looking over his shoulder.

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			Loren Carpenter
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