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Creating the Software Art In Tron Legacy

Posted by Soulskill on from the hack-their-internets dept.

hownottowrite writes "A software artist has posted an overview of the coding behind the tools used to create Tron Legacy's special effects. 'In Tron, the hacker was not supposed to be snooping around on a network; he was supposed to kill a process. So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep. I also ended up using emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t. The team was delighted to see my emacs performance — splitting the editor into nested panes and running different modes. I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie.' Ok, it's mostly a lot of awesome images, but there's a nifty reveal about an homage to Bit."

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  1. Google's Cache by sgtstein · · Score: 5, Informative

    This might be helpful... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PDbfWzLJrQUJ:jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php%3Fq%3D178+http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php%3Fq%3D178+cache&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

  2. uh oh, talking out of channels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stallman and the FSF may now insist that the movie be released on DVD as GNU/Tron Legacy.

  3. Interesting Tie-In by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since there is nothing to see here I've got an interesting Tron story. I must have watched the original at least 25-30 times through the years, I own a 12" laserdisc and DVD's of it, and never really noticed before, but after re-watching it on TV the other day due to sheer boredom, I finally noticed a name at the end credits I never recognized before - Peter Jurasik. It suddenly dawned on me that was the actor who played Londo Molari on Babylon 5 - you know, the Centauri ambassador with the Peacock / Bozo hair. I tried to think of who it was in the movie, and realized it's the accounting /actuarial program that gets imprisoned at the beginning along with ROM? CROM?. He says of the MCP - "Who does he calculate he is, anyway?". That's him! Just thought I'd share that bit of trivia with everyone.

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    -- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
  4. Anyone catch the output of uname? by tlhIngan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, now everyone will copy and paste the output from the DVD, but I saw it in the theatre.

    And I saw Flynn key in "uname -a" and I tried to parse the listing for interesthing things.

    Alas, all I caught as the OS was named "SolarOS" and the arch was "sun4m". A tribute to ye olde SunOS, I guess (SunOS/sparc).

    Though, I'd love that nice popup history window...