TRON/TROFF

From: Bill McDermith <bill_mcdermith_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Nov 10 14:56:03 2003

Fred Cisin wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jason McBrien 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 :)
>>
>>
>
>TRON was a showplace montage film, with lots of differnet groups making
>separate pieces.
>
>No, it was not all Cray.
>
In the SIGGRAPH'82 Conference Proceedings there is a picture of the
Solar Sailer on the front
cover and the Light Cycles on the back. The credits inside the back
cover talk a little about
how the images were made, and on page 289 is a paper by Craig Reynolds
called "Computer
Animation with Scipts and Actors" that talks about the ASAS program used
to animate the
Solar Sailer sequence.

Bill

SIGGRAPH'82 Proceedings
ACM Computer Graphics
Volume 16, Number 3
July 1982
R. Daniel Bergeron, Editor
ACM Order Number 428820
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