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Title: Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)
Post by: Admin on November 18, 2009, 01:26:06 PM

This is what doing CAD was like in 1977. Especially amusing is the computer tech of the time . . .

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(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac#)

Title: Re: Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)
Post by: Webbot on November 22, 2009, 08:28:35 PM

If you would like to see another Star Wars 'labour of love' then I've got the site for you.

Star Wars - with graphics done using a typewriter !!!

Yep - http://www.asciimation.co.nz (http://www.asciimation.co.nz)