Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - Computers and the Media (1985)" video.

  1. 20:34 Chromosaurus is a classic piece of early CG. But like all CG, there are cheats involved. The mirror-reflectiveness of the dinosaurs’ skins looks like it is ray-traced, but it’s not. It’s a simpler (and less CPU-intensive) technique called “environment mapping”. The giveaway is that the reflections only show the surrounding static landscape, the dinosaurs themselves are not reflected in each other. Still, ground-breaking for its time.
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