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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Bay Area SIGGRAPH electronic theater
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 15:15:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 30 15:15:07 1984
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Last night at Wheeler hall at Berkeley, Lou Katz had an electronic theater
of SIGGRAPH material past and present.  It was a good tour where we
came from and where we are.  Lou deserves a hand!  It started from
Ken Knowlton to the latest Lucasfilm stuff (Andre and Wally B).
[Too bad we didn't have Sketchpad material or maybe some of E&S's CT5a
more 'hardsell' stuff].

The program was posted to the ba.general net.  A GE light valve (should
this be a trademark?) was supplied are reduced cost.  The graphics had an
international favor, too. [I wonder how many people knew Japanese?]
We had student material as well as the latest commercial TV logos [the
perversion on computer graphics? the lavern and shirley of CG?].
There were also two demos of Lucasfilm games: Rescue on Fractalus and
a two player games called "BallBlaster?"  Both has good real-time graphics
considering it was an Atari.  The sound effects were exceptional.
Rescue would get boring after a week.  BallBlaster(?) would be interesting
and difficult for quite a while. [Are you reading this dagobah?]

Julian Gomez if you are reading this, your stuff looks A-OK.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Res. Ctr.
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