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1. Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 12:57:19 UTC Thomas 🔭✨

   Also in 1983, Lucasfilm (later Pixar) made the first high-resolution computer-generated image that was supposed to be near-photorealistic and "a single-frame movie".

   "The Road to Point Reyes" took a month to render.

   #retrocomputing

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 12:57:18 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     @thomasfuchs I've seen this image many times in a Soviet book about computer graphics. It was a translation of an American book. The title escapes me at the moment, but there were many pictures inside, including a very impressive & realistic shot of pool balls hitting each other with accurate motion blur and everything.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 13:03:08 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     @thomasfuchs Apparently the book was "Digital Visions: Computers and Art" (1987)