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I know this is getting off-topic, but since nobody's insisted on squelching it

  • From: P3D <SCHUB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: I know this is getting off-topic, but since nobody's insisted on squelching it
  • Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:04:11 -0500 (CDT)
yet...The only purely computer-animated stuff I know of in Star Wars is the
diagrams of the "Death Star" shown to the pilots at the briefing.  I remember
reading about how this was done...as I recall, it was generated on a PDP-11
with a movie-camera pointed at a monitor; the PDP triggered the camera after
it had finished drawing each frame (which must have taken at least a couple of
seconds).  Gives you some idea what the technology was like "back then"...


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