theagx
05-04-2005, 12:51 PM
Hi,
Without going into it, my life in the early 1990's was great and my life since the late 1990's has been crappy, heartachy and disappointing, no matter how I've tried, in vain, to improve it, so I am infactuated with my past.
Doing a Software Engineering degree has caused me to be especially infactuated with the computing aspect of my past.
I cannot believe how much they could do with computers with so little RAM. I watch old clips of cartoons like Reboot (1994), and old films like Jurassic Park 1 (1993) and I cannot believe what they achieved. The Michael Jackson video - "remember the time" - where he melted into a gold-chrome liquid has me overbaffled. Alex Mack (1994) did this every week. Lawnmower Man (1992) must have been rendering since late 1991, right?
How long would a Jurassic Park dinosaur scene (that didn't involve dinosaur models) have taken to render?
How did they manage to superimpose running dinosaur graphics on real-action footage?
What computers with what kind of RAM would they be using?
What would be the language of programs they used, i.e. would they have used a simple C program.
http://www.movie-list.net/classics/jurassic-park.mov
Check out that clip. It just boggles the mind. I was playing pixelated Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Nintendo - which was impressive in itself for the time, now that I think back - but Steven Spielberg was rendering dinosaurs on a 2Mhz PC. How???
Look at the clip. It still looks seamless today!!! I'm really interested how they did it and under what conditions. I'm interested in everything from what program(ming language) they used, to how long it must have taken to render.
PS: Does anyone know if I can segment my harddisk and install 1993 Windows? Could I make programs for it?
Can anyone recommend a really good shrink?
Without going into it, my life in the early 1990's was great and my life since the late 1990's has been crappy, heartachy and disappointing, no matter how I've tried, in vain, to improve it, so I am infactuated with my past.
Doing a Software Engineering degree has caused me to be especially infactuated with the computing aspect of my past.
I cannot believe how much they could do with computers with so little RAM. I watch old clips of cartoons like Reboot (1994), and old films like Jurassic Park 1 (1993) and I cannot believe what they achieved. The Michael Jackson video - "remember the time" - where he melted into a gold-chrome liquid has me overbaffled. Alex Mack (1994) did this every week. Lawnmower Man (1992) must have been rendering since late 1991, right?
How long would a Jurassic Park dinosaur scene (that didn't involve dinosaur models) have taken to render?
How did they manage to superimpose running dinosaur graphics on real-action footage?
What computers with what kind of RAM would they be using?
What would be the language of programs they used, i.e. would they have used a simple C program.
http://www.movie-list.net/classics/jurassic-park.mov
Check out that clip. It just boggles the mind. I was playing pixelated Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Nintendo - which was impressive in itself for the time, now that I think back - but Steven Spielberg was rendering dinosaurs on a 2Mhz PC. How???
Look at the clip. It still looks seamless today!!! I'm really interested how they did it and under what conditions. I'm interested in everything from what program(ming language) they used, to how long it must have taken to render.
PS: Does anyone know if I can segment my harddisk and install 1993 Windows? Could I make programs for it?
Can anyone recommend a really good shrink?