[geeks] Quick CG question...

[KRM]

Film recorders a.k.a film laser printers.  Images are written frame by 
frame as well, although it is an easier process than single frame video 
recording was back in the days.  Back then, they had to rewind the tape 
several feet, get a "running start" and lay an image down one frame 
after the last, then rewind again and so on and so on.  I believe this 
was due to time code issues, but every single frame VTR i've seen worked 
in that manner.  That's why they used to break on a constant basis, they 
were worked to death. 

Going many years back (mid eighties) they actually pointed a 35mm camera 
at a shrouded CRT.  I remember a 3D animation that came out around 1986 
called "The Magic Egg" (or something like that), was recorded in this 
manner.

/KRM

Lionel Peterson wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I just came back from seeing "Finding Nemo", and I noticed at the end
>of the film that Sun gets credit for being the rendering machines...
>
>Cool - but I have a question.
>
>I worked with computer graphics in school (like 1990-1992? we used
>Targa boards), and when we "rendered" we made image files, that were
>eventually "written" to tape using a 3/4" video deck that could write
>one frame at a time. But to do this, your final output card
>(framebuffer) and recodring media limited the resolution possible.
>
>How do they go from a graphics file to film for "real" projects? (at a
>high level)
>
>Thanks,
>  
>
>=====
>Lionel
>
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