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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 16:51:23 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   Lucasfilm Computer Division's (later Pixar) "1984".
   A 3d rendered image done for the paper "Distributed Ray Tracing" by Robert Cook, Thomas Porter, and Loren Carpenter from July 1984.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 03:14:10 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     Actual render, although just a quarter size:

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 03:26:37 UTC mcc

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     @dosnostalgic Looks a lot better than the 1983 image tbh https://mastodon.social/@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io/109615333340285714

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 03:27:04 UTC mcc

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     @dosnostalgic Why do these two versions have such different-looking color?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 03:28:24 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • mcc

     @mcc One is the actual rendered image, the other one is a scan of a printed book.

   • Farbs (farbs@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 07:43:51 UTC Farbs

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     @dosnostalgic nice!

     Has anyone reverse projected the environment map? Who's that spooky silhouette?!

   • clgood@blacksun.social's status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:40:00 UTC clgood

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     @dosnostalgic I babysat that render for a few days while Tom was out of town. Fun times.

     Later, in a slide show, I showed it saying that it was our reference photograph. Then, after another slide, I showed it again as the final render. Most people bought it.

     John Lasseter painted the environment map that's in the reflections.