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...CGI is an extremely powerful tool with enormous potential to improve the quality of storytelling through movies, but it also puts an increased burden on the storytelling itself. Very soon, if not already, audiences will demand that the effects be supported by characters, plots and situations that they care about. This is why the Star Wars Trilogy has maintained such constant and long-lived popularity. Unlike GGI, the then ground-breaking, now obsolete, special effects did not free the filmmakers from craftily having to introduce, present, disguise and surround the illusions they created. As a result, the battle sequences...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big, Stupid Boom - Booms | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...words into his argument when the first Justice cut in, asking for a citation. Waxman recovered, mustered an additional 111 words about how it's technologically feasible for Websites to screen users by age, when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor interrupted. "Does that technology require use of something called cgi?" she asked, referring to a complex protocol for changing what users see on a Web page. "It does," agreed Waxman, thereby opening the door to a line of argument in which he found himself suggesting--apparently in all seriousness--that U.S. citizens might have to purchase a government-issued, Maxwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: @THE SUPREME COURT | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...stayed away from the competition because it makes him too nervous, Agassi responded with a smile: "I imagine that would probably be the greatest accomplishment I could have in this sport Josh Dubow Time : up to date Olympics coverage... buffer ends here AdSpace #exec cgi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany To Extradite Nazi | 8/28/1996 | See Source »

...could get rid of some of the variation between courses it would improve the (grading) process a bit," Whitla added, explaining that professors are informed if their average grades are higher than usual by a positive "course grading index" (CGI) and lower by a negative CGI...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Faculty Gets Grading Studies | 2/13/1981 | See Source »

Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, professor of Government--whom Whitla called "concerned" that the University-wide grade average "hadn't come back to the standards of previous years"--said yesterday the CGI of Government 10, "Introduction to Political Philosophy," which he teaches, "is what you might call minus...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Faculty Gets Grading Studies | 2/13/1981 | See Source »

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