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Citizen Jimserac
Dec 23, 2009, 11:29:48 AM12/23/09
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Does anyone know what became of the Digital Effects Corp, the company
that did some graphics for the famous TRON movie?
Where they bought out by someone else or did they just go under?
Thanks
J
Jonathas
Dec 24, 2009, 8:43:41 AM12/24/09
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The Corp was MAGI (Mathematical Applications Group, Inc). It was
created to work with mathematics of nuclear radiation (the first use
of ray tracing that I remember), after a while, MAGI applied their
software in the field of CG.
Other thing that I know is that Ken Perlin was in the staff of MAGI
(http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/), among with other great guys.
You can find a more elaborated text about the History of CG, in
specially about MAGI, here:
http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/lesson6.html#magi
Jonathas.
Jonathas
Dec 24, 2009, 8:57:56 AM12/24/09
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Sorry, I was a little sleepy when I read your post. :-)
I don't know what happened with Digital Effects Corp., but you still
can find some useful informations in the site that I wrote in the
previous post.
I don't know what happened with Digital Effects Corp., but you still
can find some useful informations in the site that I wrote in the
previous post.
Jonathas.
Citizen Jimserac
Dec 24, 2009, 12:40:57 PM12/24/09
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On Dec 24, 8:57 am, Jonathas <jon.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I was a little sleepy when I read your post. :-)
> I don't know what happened with Digital Effects Corp., but you still
> can find some useful informations in the site that I wrote in the
> previous post.
>
> Jonathas.
>
> On Dec 24, 11:43 am, Jonathas <jon.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I was a little sleepy when I read your post. :-)
> I don't know what happened with Digital Effects Corp., but you still
> can find some useful informations in the site that I wrote in the
> previous post.
>
> Jonathas.
>
> On Dec 24, 11:43 am, Jonathas <jon.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 23, 2:29 pm, CitizenJimserac<jimse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know what became of the Digital Effects Corp, the company
> > > that did some graphics for the famous TRON movie?
>
> > > Where they bought out by someone else or did they just go under?
>
> > > Thanks
> > > J
>
> > The Corp was MAGI (Mathematical Applications Group, Inc). It was
> > created to work with mathematics of nuclear radiation (the first use
> > of ray tracing that I remember), after a while, MAGI applied their
> > software in the field of CG.
> > Other thing that I know is that Ken Perlin was in the staff of MAGI
> > (http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/), among with other great guys.
>
> > You can find a more elaborated text about the History of CG, in
> > specially about MAGI, here:http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/lesson6.html#magi
>
> > Jonathas.
>
> > > Does anyone know what became of the Digital Effects Corp, the company
> > > that did some graphics for the famous TRON movie?
>
> > > Where they bought out by someone else or did they just go under?
>
> > > Thanks
> > > J
>
> > The Corp was MAGI (Mathematical Applications Group, Inc). It was
> > created to work with mathematics of nuclear radiation (the first use
> > of ray tracing that I remember), after a while, MAGI applied their
> > software in the field of CG.
> > Other thing that I know is that Ken Perlin was in the staff of MAGI
> > (http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/), among with other great guys.
>
> > You can find a more elaborated text about the History of CG, in
> > specially about MAGI, here:http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/lesson6.html#magi
>
> > Jonathas.
MANY thanks, that web site was indeed interesting!
J.
Citizen Jimserac
Dec 24, 2009, 12:50:15 PM12/24/09
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On Dec 24, 8:43 am, Jonathas <jon.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks - oh one other thing - do you know which of the Siggraph
proceedings from the late 1980's dealt with Digital Effects Corp. and
their software regarding TRON?
Thanks
J.
Jonathas
Dec 27, 2009, 11:09:59 AM12/27/09
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I don't know. Are you right about that? I don't remember to I had seen
a paper from them. What I remember well is the paper from Ken Perlin
about a synthesizer: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=325334.325247&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=69964472&CFTOKEN=58945150
, that had a lot of things from SynthaVision (I don't remember who
told me that. :-)).
But, do you know that they did only the opening title sequence and the
Bit character in Tron? If I'm not wrong, their (Dig.Eff.) software was
able to handle only vectorized content, all rasterized content of the
movie was made by MAGI, with SynthaVision. Anyway, you can search by
yourself: http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=SERIES382&type=series&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=69964472&CFTOKEN=58945150
a paper from them. What I remember well is the paper from Ken Perlin
about a synthesizer: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=325334.325247&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=69964472&CFTOKEN=58945150
, that had a lot of things from SynthaVision (I don't remember who
told me that. :-)).
But, do you know that they did only the opening title sequence and the
Bit character in Tron? If I'm not wrong, their (Dig.Eff.) software was
able to handle only vectorized content, all rasterized content of the
movie was made by MAGI, with SynthaVision. Anyway, you can search by
yourself: http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=SERIES382&type=series&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=69964472&CFTOKEN=58945150
Jonathas.
Citizen Jimserac
Jan 6, 2010, 9:37:09 AM1/6/10
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On Dec 27 2009, 11:09 am, Jonathas <jon.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know. Are you right about that? I don't remember to I had seen
> a paper from them. What I remember well is the paper from Ken Perlin
> about a synthesizer:http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=325334.325247&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&C...> I don't know. Are you right about that? I don't remember to I had seen
> a paper from them. What I remember well is the paper from Ken Perlin
> , that had a lot of things from SynthaVision (I don't remember who
> told me that. :-)).
> But, do you know that they did only the opening title sequence and the
> Bit character in Tron? If I'm not wrong, their (Dig.Eff.) software was
> able to handle only vectorized content, all rasterized content of the
> movie was made by MAGI, with SynthaVision. Anyway, you can search by
>
> Jonathas.
>
> On Dec 24, 3:50 pm, Citizen Jimserac <jimse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 24, 8:43 am, Jonathas <jon.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Dec 23, 2:29 pm, CitizenJimserac<jimse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Does anyone know what became of the Digital Effects Corp, the company
> > > > that did some graphics for the famous TRON movie?
>
> > > > Where they bought out by someone else or did they just go under?
>
> > > > Thanks
> > > > J
>
> > > The Corp was MAGI (Mathematical Applications Group, Inc). It was
> > > created to work with mathematics of nuclear radiation (the first use
> > > of ray tracing that I remember), after a while, MAGI applied their
> > > software in the field of CG.
> > > Other thing that I know is that Ken Perlin was in the staff of MAGI
> > > (http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/), among with other great guys.
>
> > > You can find a more elaborated text about the History of CG, in
> > > specially about MAGI, here:http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/lesson6.html#magi
>
> > > Jonathas.
>
> > Thanks - oh one other thing - do you know which of the Siggraph
> > proceedings from the late 1980's dealt with Digital Effects Corp. and
> > their software regarding TRON?
>
> > Thanks
> > J.
No, I did not know that and again thanks!
J.
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