Xref: utzoo rec.arts.startrek:14652 comp.graphics:3201 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!wtr@moss.ATT.COM From: wtr@moss.ATT.COM Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,comp.graphics Subject: Re: Star Trek II graphics: "The Genesis Effect" Keywords: star trek graphics genesis Message-ID: <33421@clyde.ATT.COM> Date: 19 Sep 88 13:41:35 GMT References: <277@pte.UUCP> Sender: lp@clyde.ATT.COM Reply-To: wtr@moss.UUCP (Bill Rankin) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 36 In article <277@pte.UUCP> car@pte.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes: >The cover of the book "The Unix Operating System" by Kaare Christian features >a scenic view of a lake and some mountains. The book describes picture as >"a single frame of a one-minute sequence known as the _Genesis Effect_, which >was created in 1982 for the motion picture _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_". >The book goes on to explain that the computer group at Lucasfilm used computer >graphics to create the one-minute 1620 frame sequence. No artwork or physical >models were used. > >Christopher A. Rende Multics,DTSS,Shortwave,Scanners,StarTrek is anyone familiar with a story that "got out" about a certain modification they had to do to the generation programs? [... as rumor has it ] the fly-by course was pre-plotted onto the world, but after a good portion of the scene was done, the folks at lucasfilm "looked up" to see that a rather large "hard" mountain was growing up in their path! solution: make a quick cut in the mountain to pass through! (yes, true environmental engineering! :-) i'll have to go back this week and look at my friends copy of ST-II and go over that scene again, this time looking for that canyon. until later, ===================================================================== Bill Rankin Bell Labs, Whippany NJ (201) 386-4154 (cornet 232) email address: ...![ att ulysses allegra ]!moss!wtr ...![ att akgua watmath ]!clyde!wtr =====================================================================