Word: tins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their big show, the computer-graphics experts had special reason to celebrate. Late last month two of their own, John Lasseter and William Reeves of Pixar, a computer manufacturer in San Rafael, Calif., won the first Academy Award given for a totally computer-generated film -- a short subject called Tin Toy that starred a rambunctious baby and a windup music man. Says Jaron Lanier, founder of VPL Research, a small Redwood City, Calif., company that makes the equipment used to help people enter a computer-generated world: "This is the year that this stuff is finally starting to work...
...encoded in programs and stored in computers as software. As such, they used up massive quantities of computer time. To draw a simple object ten times a second, the minimum needed to create the illusion of motion, took 1 billion calculations a second. The highly polished images that won Tin Toy its Oscar took some 12 trillion calculations each...
...past year the cost of an entry-level 3-D computer has fallen by nearly 70%, to less than $16,000. Within the next five to eight years, predicts Jim Clark, chairman of Silicon Graphics, the leading manufacturer of 3-D workstations, "we'll see the kind of images Tin Toy represents on an ordinary personal computer...
...Harvard can't say that they are a non-profit organization that fundraises with a tin cup, given the size of their endowment. We have to look at them as we would any corporation...
...Harvard can't say that they are a non-profit organization that fundraises with a tin cup, given the size of their endowment," Bozzotto says. "We have to look at them as we would any corporation...