IS 490
SPECIAL TOPICS
Computer Graphics
May 6, 1996
Table of Contents
Introduction
3
How It Was
3
How It All Began
4
Times Were Changing 6
Industry''''s First Attempts
7
The Second Wave 10
How the Magic is Made 11
Modeling
12
Animation
13
Rendering
13
Conclusion
15
Bibliography
16
Introduction
Hollywood has gone digital, and the old ways of doing things are dying.
Animation and
special effects created with computers have been embraced by television
networks,
advertisers, and movie studios alike. Film editors, who for decades
worked by painstakingly
cutting and gluing film segments together, are now sitting in front of
computer screens.
There, they edit entire features while adding sound that is not only
stored digitally, but
also has been created and manipulated with computers. Viewers are
witnessing the results of
all this in the form of......
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