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From: tim@dretor.DRETOR.UUCP (Tim Pointing)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Star Trek II graphics: "The Genesis Effect"
Message-ID: <1025@dretor.DRETOR.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 12:44:07 GMT
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References: <277@pte.UUCP> <367@rwing.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@dretor.UUCP (Tim Pointing)
Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmantal Medicine
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In article <367@rwing.UUCP> bdw@rwing.UUCP (Brian Wright) writes:
>
>I thought they used matte paintings on that one.  It sure looked good, from
>what I saw!

In fact, they did use "paintings" for the last portion of that scene. There
was an "invisible" switch from CGI to HPI (human painted imagery) as the
"camera" backed away from the Genesis planet. Another interesting note
is that the CGI was originally done at quite a high resolution but that
looked "too good". It was filtered to produce a lower-resolution image
that "looked like it was computer generated."

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