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Tek wrote:
> "Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoo com> wrote in message
> news:40888d0a$1@news.povray.org...
>
>>As a neat side-note (well, I think it is neat), when they made Tron,
>>they actually hand-coded the models into the computer and actually drew
>>them by hand using coordinates they read off of print-outs. Imagine the
>>patience it must have taken!!!
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. The images come from a ray tracer. The models for
> that were hand coded from hand-drawn diagrams with measurements, not the other
> way around (AFAIK).
You're right!
http://www.atariarchives.org/cap/showpage.php?page=126
> i.e. they did it the same way I do much of my pov stuff! Although I often don't
> bother drawing it on paper first and just go straight into code.
It is still the best way to do it, IMHO. You aren't limited by some
programmer's idea of a GUI.
>>Also, the flickering you see is an accident. They got the film stock all
>>mixed up in the store room. I got this stuff off the Tron DVD.
>
> It is a good DVD :) Though I haven't gone through all specual features yet so
> you might know something I don't. :)
It's worth watching -- it's pretty cool!
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Respectfully,
Dan P
http://<broken link>
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