Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:


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> I recall reading that's how they did space explosions in Star Trek ;)

And the Death Star explosion in the original STAR WARS. Sadly(??), that's all
been supplanted by CGI now, for the most part. (Although, I keep coming across
modern examples of 'real' flame elements and such being used in movies;
apparently it's *still* sometimes more expedient to film real elements vs.
trying to synthesize the effect with computer algorithms.)

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