Creating the Software Art In Tron Legacy 124
hownottowrite writes "A software artist has posted an overview of the coding behind the tools used to create Tron Legacy's special effects. 'In Tron, the hacker was not supposed to be snooping around on a network; he was supposed to kill a process. So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep. I also ended up using emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t. The team was delighted to see my emacs performance — splitting the editor into nested panes and running different modes. I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie.' Ok, it's mostly a lot of awesome images, but there's a nifty reveal about an homage to Bit."
Google's Cache (Score:5, Informative)
Re:So emacs was in a blockbuster movie (Score:3, Informative)
You're exactly right. It doesn't change how bad emacs is.
Interesting Tie-In (Score:5, Informative)
Since there is nothing to see here I've got an interesting Tron story. I must have watched the original at least 25-30 times through the years, I own a 12" laserdisc and DVD's of it, and never really noticed before, but after re-watching it on TV the other day due to sheer boredom, I finally noticed a name at the end credits I never recognized before - Peter Jurasik. It suddenly dawned on me that was the actor who played Londo Molari on Babylon 5 - you know, the Centauri ambassador with the Peacock / Bozo hair. I tried to think of who it was in the movie, and realized it's the accounting /actuarial program that gets imprisoned at the beginning along with ROM? CROM?. He says of the MCP - "Who does he calculate he is, anyway?". That's him! Just thought I'd share that bit of trivia with everyone.
Re:Processing community? (Score:4, Informative)
Processing is a set of libraries that I think use Java to do "creative coding"
lots of generative art is made with "Processing"
I do a lot of work with openframeworks, which was also used along with cinder and houdini.
check out my work @ http://university-records.com/ [university-records.com]