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DevilMaster (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
How much did that computer cost at the time?
jothamread (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Also, the Apple II that came out in 1977 was used in the television industry for similar things and that was a consumer appliance rather than a specialist appliance (suggesting to me equivalent specialist appliances had been around for years prior).
jothamread (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
As a computer graphics engineer I have to say it's reasonable that this was built with assistance of computers in the manner represented here. Vector (rather than raster) display technology was normal at the time. Computers of the time would have had trouble rasterising and computing the 3D space trivialized in this video, but vector displays would have had no problem with it. As for the other stuff you said, I have no opinion on that.
gibbonduder182 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
your not the only one who thinks its stinks of bullshit.If this was real surely it'd have been used as an extra on one of the dvds by now?And anyway, wasn't that sequence hand animated, NOT computer animated.Are any of the names of the people claiming to be involved in this project in the credits of ANH? If not, you have your answer right there surely.
Airgraph1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
wow an early tablet
MadChemo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The video was made in 1977, genius.
Stopmotionist (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
That's not how raytracing works.
214scifi (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Just imagine what kind of hard-drive they had. It must have taken up two whole rooms!
sizetwo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is absolutely amazing. Massive cred to the pioneers of our field of work.
deyoungparker (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I used to bullseye Womp Rats in my T-16 back home. |
