Xref: utzoo rec.arts.startrek:14884 comp.graphics:3249 Path: utzoo!dciem!dretor!tim 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 Article-I.D.: dretor.1025 References: <277@pte.UUCP> <367@rwing.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@dretor.UUCP (Tim Pointing) Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmantal Medicine Lines: 17 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." -- Tim Pointing, DCIEM {decvax|ihnp4|watmath}!utzoo!dciem!dretor!tim or uunet!mnetor!dciem!dretor!tim or tim%dretor@zorac.arpa