TRON/TROFF

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Mon Nov 10 14:43:54 2003

At 02:19 PM 11/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Anyone know what TRON was rendered on? I know it was Cray hardware, but what
>software? I assume it was custom, and probably written in fortran :)

I asked my friend Joe Cychosz down at Purdue Univerity's CADLAB what he
remembered about this and here is his response:

> The graphics came from 3 sources.
> The light cycles were raytraced using MAGI synthavision,
> Digital Productions did some of the work, the base of DP's software began
> with a version of Movie.byu (this is what ran on there Cray, they had an
> XMP)
>
> I will have to figure out what the 3rd graphics piece was.
> There was something for Robert Abel that was computed on the
> Gould NP1's. I don't remember if it was TRON or something else.
> I seem to remember 3 parts to the graphics. DP had the biggest
> part of the 3.
>
> None of this is in stone. Its been a long time since TRON
> and the brain cells aren't as pollished as they used to be.

--tom
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