eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (11/30/84)
Last night at Wheeler hall at Berkeley, Lou Katz had an electronic theater
of SIGGRAPH material past and present. It was a good tour where we
came from and where we are. Lou deserves a hand! It started from
Ken Knowlton to the latest Lucasfilm stuff (Andre and Wally B).
[Too bad we didn't have Sketchpad material or maybe some of E&S's CT5a
more 'hardsell' stuff].
The program was posted to the ba.general net. A GE light valve (should
this be a trademark?) was supplied are reduced cost. The graphics had an
international favor, too. [I wonder how many people knew Japanese?]
We had student material as well as the latest commercial TV logos [the
perversion on computer graphics? the lavern and shirley of CG?].
There were also two demos of Lucasfilm games: Rescue on Fractalus and
a two player games called "BallBlaster?" Both has good real-time graphics
considering it was an Atari. The sound effects were exceptional.
Rescue would get boring after a week. BallBlaster(?) would be interesting
and difficult for quite a while. [Are you reading this dagobah?]
Julian Gomez if you are reading this, your stuff looks A-OK.
--eugene miya
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