15 Jan
1999
15 Jan
'99
6:01 a.m.
<As I recall, some of original Star War's
movie graphics were done on a
<PDP11.
I don't think so. They used masks and other film
tricks. someone else can
comment.
More than 90% of the movie where done by (at this time)
standard tricks - the remaining wher _new_computer_made_
tricks. Not as we name it now, but rather computer controlled
camera movement to give these (at this time) super realistic
flight scenes. Computer tricks as we now know it where not
used.
Though the -11 had graphics. It was more that any
graphics were not
supported by the OS and the hardware to do that was likely as big as the
machine itself and not anywhere near real time. Graphics need lots of
ram and lots of disk neither of which where common then nor cheap.
Althrough it might still have been PDP-11s that created some
of the amazing computer displays (back than), shown in the movie,
like the flight computers, and targeting system of th X-wings.
Gruss
H.
BTW: does anybody know the date when the new Star Wars will premiere ?
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