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[mthomason]

You couldn't produce CGI on a ZX Spectrum.

And even if you could, whenever two lines of different colours intersected you'd get a coloured block

Ah, happy memories.

 

[lastbesthope]

They didn't have CGI back then. :roll:

You couldn't produce CGI on a ZX Spectrum.

Yes they did since technically any video signal oproduced by a computer is CGI.

Plus Airwolf 1984
Tron 1982, so they did have CGI of a sort.

LBH

 

[Lorcan Nagle]

2001 had CGI way back in the 60s- the planet Jupiter was rendered on a Cray.

 

[Greg Smith]

Now I was under the impression that the first film to use compter generated graphics of any kind was Westworld in 1973.

Of course they cerainly didn't use them for effects in Airwolf (except maybe computer screens ).

 

[Nomad]

I didn't know about 2001's Jupiter being computer-generated, but there were lots of (what look like) computer-generated diplays in the cockpits of the Orion orbiter and the Earth-Moon shuttle.

 

[lastbesthope]

A lot of what looks like early CGI isn't, the Guide stuff in the H2G2 TV series was all hand drawn animations that looked like CGI.

LBH

 

[B5Temple]

I didn't know about 2001's Jupiter being computer-generated, but there were lots of (what look like) computer-generated diplays in the cockpits of the Orion orbiter and the Earth-Moon shuttle.

Those screens were animated film clips and rear-projected onto screens in front of the actors. It's pretty darn convincing -- even by today's standards. The chess game in 2001 was impressive and looked like video games from the 80's.

Now give us Badgers!!!!

Badgers?!! We don't need no stinking badgers!!!