Oops, just found it at 1:22 in a different vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCw_iW6-i88&feature=related never noticed it before...thanks On Jan 31, 2012, at 04:03 PM, David Bennett <dlbennett@mac.com> wrote: Dan, I can't seem to find it...can you tell me at what time in this video you see the disappearing mountain? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXbWCrzWJo4 Thanks, Dave On Jan 31, 2012, at 03:39 PM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> wrote: I remember reading an old magazine (Starlog maybe) that detailed the making of this--they generated the mountains, and then started the flyby. It was so new, and taxed the hardware enough, that it took a long time (days, I believe) to even render 1 frame at a high enough resolution for film. By the time someone noticed the random fractal generator had put a peak right in the path of the camera, it was too late to be able to go back and re-render with the missing mountain. So they ended up deleting the mountain (and creating a canyon) a few seconds before the camera hits it. Dan On Jan 31, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Brent Watson wrote:
That software was actually done by Ed Catmul at the U of San Francisco. That was one of the first applications of fractals. c