25 Aug
2013
25 Aug
'13
1:04 p.m.
As some of you know, I have two smaller children, ages six and seven. I
decided it was family movie night and busted out a copy of "Flight of the
Navigator." ... this is a Disney-produced sci-fi flick from 1986 and
includes some interesting CGI (from 1984-1985 if you think about it.)
So with the kids entrenched by the plot, I broke out the google and began
to search and try to find out "how did they do the cgi for Flight of the
Navigator?"
I found the following, which answered my question.
http://dave.zfx.com/omnibus.html && http://dave.zfx.com/nav.html
The F1 sounds like a very interesting setup.
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-Jon
Jonathan Katz, Indianapolis, IN.
25 Aug
25 Aug
2:25 p.m.
Very cool and very cool flick. "Compliance!"
On Aug 25, 2013 10:49 PM, "Jonathan Katz" <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:
As some of you know, I have two smaller children, ages
six and seven. I
decided it was family movie night and busted out a copy of "Flight of the
Navigator." ... this is a Disney-produced sci-fi flick from 1986 and
includes some interesting CGI (from 1984-1985 if you think about it.)
So with the kids entrenched by the plot, I broke out the google and began
to search and try to find out "how did they do the cgi for Flight of the
Navigator?"
I found the following, which answered my question.
http://dave.zfx.com/omnibus.html && http://dave.zfx.com/nav.html
The F1 sounds like a very interesting setup.
--
-Jon
Jonathan Katz, Indianapolis, IN.
3:23 p.m.
On 08/25/2013 03:04 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
As some of you know, I have two smaller children, ages
six and seven. I
decided it was family movie night and busted out a copy of "Flight of the
Navigator." ... this is a Disney-produced sci-fi flick from 1986 and
includes some interesting CGI (from 1984-1985 if you think about it.)
Funny, just watched "Explorers" yesterday which is of the same era - and I
see that's mentioned in the article alongside FotN (it's a good movie for
classiccmp spotting :-)
J.
26 Aug
26 Aug
1:23 p.m.
From: Jonathan Katz
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 1:04 PM
I knew about _TRON_, but I had no idea that the F1 was used for other
movies!
The F1 sounds like a very interesting setup.
I knew quite a bit about the Foonly F1, since I worked with a number of
alumni of SAIL, but I did *not* know that the KA10 was used as the console.
I suspect that the "Tops-10" in question was WAITS, the SAIL OS which
diverged from the DEC PDP-10 monitor around version 3; the plan was to run
BBN's TENEX operating system on the hardware.
For more information on the F1, I suggest that you read Dave Poole's
DECUS presentation and the SuperFoonly Overview available at Bitsavers:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/foonly/Poole_Super_Foonly_DECUS.pdf
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/foonly/SuperFoonly_Overview_Aug72.pdf
(The F1 built by Triple-I was a prototype of the SuperFoonly design. More
importantly, DEC licensed the SuperFoonly design from Stanford, made some
changes, and brought the result out as the KL10 processor, running both
Tops-10 and a modified and extended version of TENEX called TOPS-20.)
The Foonly systems, along with the System Concepts and XKL systems, are
considered by most to be part of the PDP-10 extended family of computers.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
9:48 p.m.
On 8/25/13 2:04 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
As some of you know, I have two smaller children, ages
six and seven. I
decided it was family movie night and busted out a copy of "Flight of the
Navigator." ... this is a Disney-produced sci-fi flick from 1986 and
includes some interesting CGI (from 1984-1985 if you think about it.)
So with the kids entrenched by the plot, I broke out the google and began
to search and try to find out "how did they do the cgi for Flight of the
Navigator?"
I found the following, which answered my question.
http://dave.zfx.com/omnibus.html && http://dave.zfx.com/nav.html
The F1 sounds like a very interesting setup.
Very cool effects for the era. I loved the old gas station scene from
that movie. That was hilarious. :D :D
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Dave Land
Land Computer Service
Check out my site at http://www.landcomp.net
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