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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: ID4 on February 02, 2011, 06:13:31 PM

Title: Tron
Post by: ID4 on February 02, 2011, 06:13:31 PM

Hi friends!

Tron flim was made in 1982 ... So what computer and software were used for the 3D animation? I just love this "solid type" 3D animation.

Title: Re: Tron
Post by: Piru on February 02, 2011, 06:19:06 PM

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tron_%28film%29

Title: Re: Tron
Post by: commodorejohn on February 02, 2011, 06:27:53 PM

Looks from the section on pre-production in the Wikipedia article like the CGI was handled by four different companies, although MAGI did the majority of it. All of the companies likely used in-house software, as that was a very new field at the time, and it seems that none of them released any commercial rendering software later, although some of the people involved went on to found Wavefront.

One of the computers was the Super Foonly, (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Super_Foonly_F-1) the fastest PDP-10 ever built.