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Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)

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(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information on the lab, visit our website -- www.evl.uic.edu

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: November 20, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Author: evltube

Length: 10:17
Rating: 4.82
Views: 154270

Tags: 1977  Cuba  death  Electronic  EVL  Laboratory  Larry  star  trench  Visualization  wars  wireframe  

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asaluste007 (October 9, 2008 at 11:26 pm)
Word man!
bhnm9 (October 8, 2008 at 8:25 pm)
whatever
egerie7 (October 6, 2008 at 2:08 pm)
It's amazing to see what was the technology at the time and what it was possible to make. Thank you for posting this!
wayzotoichi (September 30, 2008 at 3:22 pm)
reminds me of 'marquee' in the old windows screensaver animation.
claytonicnutz (September 23, 2008 at 4:13 am)
Wow - fantastic!
inthefade (September 22, 2008 at 11:16 pm)
I want dials like that for my computer.
dv909 (September 22, 2008 at 11:59 am)
BRILLIANT! No wonder this movie fried our brains when it came out in '77. It was put together by artists truly ahead of their time. Thanks for posting this!
venona42 (September 22, 2008 at 2:04 am)
I recently tried to draw 20 X-wings in the computer using 3D Studio Max R1 as I was trying to recreate the Death Star trench run. After replicating the X-wings 10 times, the computer began to slow down.
Northgtabeast (September 19, 2008 at 6:10 pm)
AWESOME! AWESOME! men the noen havet a home PC on this time only some now abuot PC and then thay do things like this this PC must be so big like the WTC befor the be destraut !!!!!!!!! man waht the filmindustrys have to for PC???? i men they have the tecnologi some be uset for privat 30 years befor !!!! wahts dotay for PC in the film industry????
ravennome (September 18, 2008 at 10:30 am)
AWESOME!

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