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1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the real-time-racing-it-is-not dept.

Noryungi writes "The interestingly named 'Topless Robot' has a real trip down memory lane: how the computer graphics of the original Star Wars movie were made. The article points to this YouTube video of a short documentary made by Larry Cuba, the original artist, that explains how he did it. In 1977."

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  1. Re:Hollywood ? by Sockatume · · Score: 2, Funny

    First post, and you still got modded redundant. :(

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  2. NOT the original graphics! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't believe these lies.

    The wireframe of the death star did not shoot first in the original.

  3. amazing... by NeoStrider_BZK · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...even for todays standards...

  4. yeah by MagicM · · Score: 5, Funny

    The interestingly named "Topless Robot"

    *click*

    1. Re:yeah by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 2, Funny

      It would just be schematics.

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    2. Re:yeah by socrplayr813 · · Score: 3, Funny

      One of the few times Slashdotters have actually bothered to click the links...

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  5. Re:Dials for manipulating 3D objects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be a programmer...

  6. Ah yes... by mr_josh · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... I remember DirectX 7 quite well.

  7. Re:Dials for manipulating 3D objects by dunkelfalke · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just imagine manipulating 3d graphics with a casio pg-380 midi guitar.

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  8. Re:Star Trek sucks by CelticWhisper · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh, come now. Everyone knows that Babylon 5 is a big pile of shit.

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  9. Re:Better Then CGI by Tynin · · Score: 5, Funny

    You didn't cry during Wall-E? I mean, didn't either, it was just I hadn't dusted the room in a while and it was irritating my eyes.

  10. Re:Better Then CGI by BlackSnake112 · · Score: 5, Funny

    *** someone what of a spoiler alert ***

    If you ever watched the making of one of the Aliens movies you found out the slime from he aliens mouths is corn syrup. All that sweet smelling stuff free flowing over everything. After I found that out the aliens lost a lot of their scariness. I seen the slime drooling out of one of those alien's mouths and my brain goes "ooo candy".

  11. Re:Better Then CGI by TheSync · · Score: 3, Funny

    Today they would have framed that shot tight on the graphics with the speaker on one side.

    And the guy would be showing a PowerPoint, littered with stock photos of generic, diverse, Stormtroopers sitting around an office conference table with happy looks on their faces.

  12. Re:Better Then CGI by istartedi · · Score: 2, Funny

    HFCS? You should be more scared.

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