In 1982 a CRAY mainframe computer had 8MB of memory at a cost of $7,000,000. For TRON, each rendering required 18MB of memory, so even on a CRAY the animators could not have viewed a single frame. For whatever computer they used, they had to render one scan line at a time and could not see the results of their efforts until the scan lines were combined on to film.
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A Disgruntled Federal Employee’s 1980s Desk Calendar
During the eighties, a nameless Cold Warrior grew frustrated in his job for the Department of Defense and poured out his feelings in an unusual way. He was a midlevel (GS-11/GS-12) analyst working at the U.S. Army’s Combined Arms Center, at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Every GS-11/GS-12 in that era would have been given a government-issue desk calendar, and this Kansas scribe made the most of his. Like a monk, he labored over his document every day, adding carefully crafted letters and elaborate drawings to what became, over nine years, a remarkably full chronicle of the decade.
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A student turned me on to this dada brilliance this evening.
Spaghetti.
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