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When he says the Scanimate had a scene in the first Star Wars, he most certainly means the Death Star plans animation shown during the briefing before the Trenc
by philistine 5y ago
When he says the Scanimate had a scene in the first Star Wars, he most certainly means the Death Star plans animation shown during the briefing before the Trench Run. Nothing else in Star Wars looks like what this crazy machine outputs.
I knew that the plans show an equatorial "cannon" because the scene used an earlier design of the Death Star, but I didn’t know it used an analog machine to make them. I wrongly assumed it was made by a digital computer.
- hashmash 5y agoI don't think the Scanimate was used for this. This video shows a digital computer being used to create the animated trench sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac
- jbluepolarbear 5y agoI think this is what scanimate was used for: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Overbridge/Legends?file=DS_command_deck.png https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Overbridge/Legends?file=DS_...
- hashmash 5y agoReally? Why? It looks like a static image in the movie.
- skhr0680 5y agoMaybe it’s this: youtube.com/watch?v=AA_D__HMuFw&t=229s
- BBC-vs-neolibs 5y agoThat looks very plausible. It looks low resolution and video like. Remember, the Scanimate is SD video.
- jbluepolarbear 5y agoIt’s what was called out in the Wikipedia.
- ghosty141 5y agoThe Wikipedia page for the scanimate lists "Star Wars (tactical display in Death Star war room)"
- jbluepolarbear 5y agoI’m curious what that dial system was, it looked like an oscillator based vector display with how it was controlled with dials and how the programmer used a separate computer to run the software and dot pen.
- behringer 5y agoThis video explains how it was done and a full repair/refurb of the original system https://youtu.be/_mtLUws1bOk https://youtu.be/_mtLUws1bOk
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- nwallin 5y agoIt wasn't used for the wire frames of the Death Star/trench run briefing. Those were digitally generated on a PDP-11. I'm like 75ish percent sure the Scanimate was used to generate the orbits the Death Star's targeting computer was showing as they were showing the moon coming out from behind the planet. oh.. spoilers... for Star Wars.... https://www.retrothing.com/2008/04/star-wars-prehi.html https://www.retrothing.com/2008/04/star-wars-prehi.html
- philistine 5y agoYeah, you're right and I was wrong. Perhaps only the gas planet was animated using the Scanimate though. The firing solution circles might have been done on a computer.