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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>
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Reply-To: wtr@moss.UUCP (Bill Rankin)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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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,

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