Fewer times than I've seen The Exorcist, more times than I've seen Forbidden Planet. It's one of my favorite sci fi flicks... Dan -- Sent from my phone, please excuse any mispelings or errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2012 5:08 pm Subject: [Utah-astronomy] OT: A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away... To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Just how many times have you watched this movie? On Jan 31, 2012 4:28 PM, "Daniel Holmes" <danielh@holmesonics.com> wrote:
And it's one of those things that once you see it, you always see it. Kinda like the arrow in the FedEx logo.
Dan -- Sent from my iPod. Please excuse any mispelings or errors.
On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:16 PM, David Bennett <dlbennett@mac.com> wrote:
Oops, just found it at 1:22 in a different vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCw_iW6-i88&feature=related
never noticed it before...thanks
On Jan 31, 2012, at 04:03 PM, David Bennett <dlbennett@mac.com> wrote:
Dan, I can't seem to find it...can you tell me at what time in this video you see the disappearing mountain? :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXbWCrzWJo4
Thanks,
Dave
On Jan 31, 2012, at 03:39 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> wrote:
I remember reading an old magazine (Starlog maybe) that detailed the making of this--they generated the mountains, and then started the flyby. It was so new, and taxed the hardware enough, that it took a long time (days, I believe) to even render 1 frame at a high enough resolution for film. By the time someone noticed the random fractal generator had put a peak right in the path of the camera, it was too late to be able to go back and re-render with the missing mountain. So they ended up deleting the mountain (and creating a canyon) a few seconds before the camera hits it.
Dan
On Jan 31, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Brent Watson wrote:
That software was actually done by Ed Catmul at the U of San Francisco. That was one of the first applications of fractals. c
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