jacobson@uwvax.ARPA (Fred M Jacobson) (09/17/83)
The videogame-like images from the climax of Superman III appear on the cover of the September 1983 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. (One also appeared recently on the cover of InfoWorld.) The description inside (pp. 7-10) says that Atari's Special Programs group used two Symbolics LM2 Lisp Machines hosting a 32-bit Ikonas frame buffer. Pat Cole, Special Programs software manager, said that using Lisp was a great help because, Symbolic's object-oriented programming system, Flavors, makes it "incredibly easy to code graphics."