TRON/TROFF

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Mon Nov 10 15:06:39 2003

At 02:43 PM 11/10/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>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
>
>

A little bit more clarification from Joe:

> I don't think DP did any of the work for that film.
> Credits show Digital Effects (new york company out of NYIT guys).
> Robert Abel is in the credits so I was right on that.
>
> The rest of the stuff about DP is true, just doesn't apply to
> TRON.
>
> see www.imdb.com

--tom
Received on Mon Nov 10 2003 - 15:06:39 GMT