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"A Little History of C 3/3" says that C was used in the special effects for Star Wars. I do not know what relevance this has, honestly, but independent of th

"A Little History of C 3/3" says that C was used in the special effects for Star Wars. I do not know what relevance this has, honestly, but independent of that is the strange choice of photo: an image from the Empire Strikes Back which shows stop-motion models with optically-composited, rotoscoped lasers. Excepting that this may be from the digitally recomposited Special Editions, no C code was used in the making of this shot.

Zetobal 3y ago
Watch Lights & Magic on Disney+ and you will understand why the reference is in there. ILM, Pixar, WETA had huge influx on graphical swe... hell even photoshop was a sideproject of ILM at the time.
- zakary 3y ago
  Care to enlighten those of us who don’t already know the explanation?
  - Zetobal 3y ago
    ILM was and is an absolute software engineering power house and they started with motion controlled cameras for star wars at the time all their in house software was c++. A lot of software which is still used today. Pixars Renderman, Photoshop, Maya... was initially engineered at ILM or Lucasarts which were subsidiaries of Lucasfilm.
    - zakary 3y ago
      Thank you. That makes sense
    - sbuk 3y ago
      Maya was an Alias|Wavefront product, which was a subsidiary of SGI. It came along way after Pixar had been spun out of ILM. John Knoll, who co-developed Photoshop with his brother Thomas, is still at ILM as the CCO.
- bluedino 3y ago
  Isn't the wireframe death star scene the only part done in C (and therefore by computer) in the first movie? https://cdm.link/2021/11/watch-larry-cuba-explain-how-he-animated-the-computer-graphics-for-the-original-star-wars/ https://cdm.link/2021/11/watch-larry-cuba-explain-how-he-ani...
  - Zetobal 3y ago
    Yes, done by Ed Catmull himself.