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From: ciemo@bananapc.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Max Headroom
Summary: Cray shmay
Keywords: How was he done?
Message-ID: <34181@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 1 Jun 89 02:25:10 GMT
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In article <540@corona.pb>, db2@pbinfo.UUCP (Vorl. Informationssysteme) writes:
> 
> Seriously: You can't do things like Max Headroom with anything smaller
> than Pixar or Cray or such. But actually it wasn't done with computers...
> 
> 	D. Aedal

No, you don't need a Pixar or a Cray.  See articles previously posted to
this news group concerning Mike the Talking Head done at SIGGRAPH '88.
Interactive Talking Heads for the meer price of a 4D/70GT (not including
the cost of the digitizer and time required to write the software).

Geez, people on comp.graphics seem to think you have to spend millions of
dollars or reinvent graphics primitives to do interactive 3D graphics.
It just ain't so.

--

David M. Ciemiewicz
Member of the Technical Staff
WorkGroup Products Division
Silicon Graphics, Inc.