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...RESIDUE OF DESIGN...
...these are retained and displayed prominently in the new buildings, whose functions differ from the originals only in scope. The main business of Los Alamos is what it has been since the town popped up on a plateau just east of the continental divide 42 years ago: the design and development of nuclear weapons. These functions are performed in a surrounding of caves, canyons, mesas, mountains and sky so beautiful that all one has to do is look up from his work for a moment, and the day has changed...
...that you can get a lot of information into a chart or graph rather than a ten-or 15-inch story," says Larry Tarleton, news managing editor of the Dallas Times Herald. Says Michael Keegan, assistant managing editor for art at the Washington Post: "Its greatest influence is on design. A lot of editors are saying, 'This is good. It's clear. We can do this...
...biggest ovations last week were reserved for a more subtle use of computer-graphics technology: a touching, 5-min. animation titled Tony de Peltrie. Created by a design team from the University of Montreal, it depicts a once famous musician who sits at a grand piano in the middle of a hardwood floor, tickling the keys and tapping his white leather shoes to the beat of his memories. In striking contrast to the awkward, robot-like characters in earlier computer films, De Peltrie looks and acts human; his fingers and facial expressions are soft, lifelike and wonderfully appealing. In creating...
Perhaps the most dramatic use of the technology is in the design of new chemicals and drugs. By showing how the molecules of the active ingredients in a drug attach themselves, like keys in locks, to target molecules in the body, computer models can help researchers see how a change in molecular structure will affect a drug's behavior. Says Robert Langridge, who heads the computer-graphics laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco: "I call it computer-assisted insight...