10 Nov
2003
10 Nov
'03
7:06 a.m.
At 02:43 PM 11/10/2003 -0600, you wrote:
At 02:19 PM 11/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
A little bit more clarification from Joe:
Anyone know what TRON was rendered on? I know it
was Cray hardware, but what
software? I assume it was custom, and probably written in fortran :)
I asked my friend Joe Cychosz down at Purdue Univerity's CADLAB what he
remembered about this and here is his response:
The graphics came from 3 sources.
The light cycles were raytraced using MAGI synthavision,
Digital Productions did some of the work, the base of DP's software began
with a version of Movie.byu (this is what ran on there Cray, they had an
XMP)
I will have to figure out what the 3rd graphics piece was.
There was something for Robert Abel that was computed on the
Gould NP1's. I don't remember if it was TRON or something else.
I seem to remember 3 parts to the graphics. DP had the biggest
part of the 3.
None of this is in stone. Its been a long time since TRON
and the brain cells aren't as pollished as they used to be.
--tom
I don't think DP did any of the work for that
film.
Credits show Digital Effects (new york company out of NYIT guys).
Robert Abel is in the credits so I was right on that.
The rest of the stuff about DP is true, just doesn't apply to
TRON.
see www.imdb.com
--tom