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In Reply to: It was OK posted by Mart on May 26, 2001 at 18:26:46:
>>The fire was obviously a painted 2-D image<<I haven't seen "Shrek" but the animation documentary on TV showed the flames traveling down the corridor being 3-D surface-modeled with triangles in steps at increasingly higher resolution. I'm not familiar with all the CGI lingo so I don't know if this is what you meant as painted 2-D.
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... mainly because I find them misnomers. You see, CG mostly works with skins. They model the surface of 3-D objects. The object is faceted into triangles as you observed. Then, the wireframe mesh is fill with 2-D triangles in 3-D space. Once, that is done. You determine what color(s) the triangles are. (BTW, this also includes the amount transparency like the skin of the water & the amount of reflectivity which determines how smooth & shiny something appears to be) Anywho, in the case of fire they obviously ran a movie of fire on these triangular panels ... like a VR version of Disney's "Haunted House" where they projected a movie of talking person onto a manimann's stationary head. Thus, the image of the fire wasn't computer generated which was move obvious with the candle & fireplace. These were just painted in place which made the fireplace really bad. It was like watching a movie at an oblique angle.
....just my 2¢
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where the speakers are thin but the music is anything but
> > It was like watching a movie at an oblique angle. < <Often times, I have to read your posts that way.
Standing on my head while looking over my shoulder,
Tom §.
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