msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (05/17/84)
> Many of the displays used in HAL's makeup were from a company in > New York called Information Displays. They were the forrunners of > the interactive display systems and many other neat things. They > were just 10 years ahead of the industry as there were very few > CPUs that knew what to do with the fancy display. > T. C. Wheeler What exactly did Information Displays do? Did they design the images that appeared on the displays? Every "computer display" in 2001 was produced by traditional animation techniques and was matted into the scene. Computers weren't used. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc "I'm a citizen of the Universe, and a gentleman to boot!"
wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) (05/17/84)
[] Look again. The displays used in the background scenes were real. They came right out of the same programs used at Computer shows for their product. They were the only company to have a REAL circle generator at the time. The also had several other NEAT things that their displays could do. The displays used in the closeups were indeed animations, but those you could see in the background were not. I seem to recall some with slowly revolving sine waves and rotating boxes and such. T. C. Wheeler