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...business, Government and the military. Although HBO and other broadcasters say they have taken precautions to prevent future disruptions, they were gratified by the grounding of Captain Midnight. "This was a great piece of high-tech gumshoeing," marveled Steve Tuttle, vice president of the National Cable Television Association. "Sherlock Holmes would have been proud...
...screen moments of recent years are more, well, eye-catching. A fleet of rebel spaceships enters the Death Star for a climactic battle against the Empire's forces in Return of the Jedi. The shards of a stained-glass window are transformed into a sword-wielding knight in Young Sherlock Holmes. Runaway mine cars career at a breakneck pace through hairbreadth twists and turns in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
...Spielberg hits as E.T., Poltergeist and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now ILM's handiwork seems to be everywhere. The company created the effects for six of last year's releases, among them Cocoon (for which ILM technicians won their seventh visual-effects Oscar), Back to the Future, Young Sherlock Holmes and Explorers. And that does not count smaller jobs on films like Out of Africa. (The train that wends its way through the African landscape in the opening credit sequence is actually a miniature built by ILM and inserted later into the scenic footage...
...process. The figure is photographed against a blue background and then combined in an optical printer with the scene into which it will be placed. This procedure must be repeated each time a new element is added to the scene. The pastry creatures that came to life in Young Sherlock Holmes, for example, were hand-manipulated rod puppets, each shot individually and added one by one in as many as twelve layers. For a brief shot of a space battle in Return of the Jedi, 63 layers were required. This and other complex scenes are made possible by a computer...
Computers are also being used to create entire images from scratch. For effects like the stained-glass man in Young Sherlock Holmes, all the visual elements of the figure--size, shape and surface characteristics--are fed into a computer, along with such data as camera angles and light sources. The computer then uses this information to construct an image. Simple geometrical shapes are relatively easy to create, but the process is far more difficult for complicated figures. The stained-glass man, for instance, took four people some four months to create...