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From: macs%worke@Sun.COM (Manuel Cisneros)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Computer Graphics & Entertainment
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Date: 27 Mar 89 17:25:06 GMT
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In article <89@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz) writes:
>In article <1530@wpi.wpi.edu> dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah) writes:
>>he could have computer animate realistic-looking starships.  When I watch the
>>beginning of Star Trek The Next Generation (with the whizzing planets), I
>>thought that the whole thing was computer generated.  Is this true?  Are the
>>vessels used in the series also computer generated?
>
>  Everything is computer generated.  If you've seen Pixar's "The Tin
>Toy", then you've seen the state of the art in computer animation.

I may be wrong (although I doubt it) but the opening sequence of STTNG
is not completely computer generated, at least not the Enterprise, as
I have stood next to the model (its big, and light blue, by the way)
that is used for the show.

Manuel.