Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Mart (i) on May 27, 2001 at 10:12:30

In Reply to: Re: It was OK posted by TAFKA Steve on May 27, 2001 at 09:31:07:

... 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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