tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002648.post6605575841677548600..comments2024-02-12T10:43:24.157-05:00Comments on CrazyKinux's Musings: Friday Video: TRON, then and now!CrazyKinuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17787815504812195151noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002648.post-49463724458690633522009-08-04T16:10:57.760-04:002009-08-04T16:10:57.760-04:00Yikes. TRON goes so way back, I can't even be...Yikes. TRON goes so way back, I can't even believe I existed then. <br /><br />How sci fi has grown since then ...<br /><br />Still remember all those Star War premiers. The lines, the hype. They weren't just films ... they were historical events! :Djamentahttp://podlogs.com/jamenta/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002648.post-50490336847367076262009-08-02T18:20:06.785-04:002009-08-02T18:20:06.785-04:00Well, actually, most of the original graphics for ...Well, actually, most of the original graphics for the original <i>Tron</i> were rendered with the "Super Foonly F-1," a variant of the DEC PDP-10. It was the fastest PDP-10 ever made, but only one was ever built. It ran at a 10 MHz clock speed with an 18-bit address bus and maybe 4M-words of memory (somewhat over 16 Mb, as it used 36-bit memory words). I'm sure pretty much any PC-type machine from the 386 on up could have run rings around it. And it ran, not DOS, but a variant of the TENEX operating system called "Foonex."<br /><br />Still, that doesn't take away from the impressive nature of the <i>Tron</i> computer graphics. (There's less computer graphic work in the movie than you might think; only about 15-20 minutes' worth. Most of the rest of the effects were done with hand animation techniques even more labor-intensive than standard cel animation.)Erbo Evanshttp://ralphadogs.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002648.post-64306916342561310442009-07-31T18:36:36.140-04:002009-07-31T18:36:36.140-04:00The thing that's so impressive about the origi...The thing that's so impressive about the original movie is that they rendered all the CG in it <i>by hand in DOS</i>. No GUIs or handy modeling programs like we have today. It was quite a feat.Paihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14108169893140762249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002648.post-90151119658938768292009-07-31T17:57:36.182-04:002009-07-31T17:57:36.182-04:00One word:
EPIC!One word:<br /><br />EPIC!haywirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11369246127697301812noreply@blogger.com