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From: rfpfeifle@violet.waterloo.edu (Ron Pfeifle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Star Trek II graphics: "The Genesis Effect"
Keywords: star trek graphics genesis
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Date: 20 Sep 88 16:02:04 GMT
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In article <33421@clyde.ATT.COM> wtr@moss.UUCP (Bill Rankin) writes:
>[... 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!

There was somebody here from LF in 1982 who showed us some stills, and
in the (one or two) frames where the eyepoint passes through the "split"
in the mountain,  a number of names are visible, "etched" onto the side
of the cleft.

Really!