Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)

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(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information on the lab, visit our website -- www.evl.uic.edu

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: November 20, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Author: evltube

Length: 00:10:17
Rating: 4.81
Views: 160159

Tags: EVL Electronic Visualization Laboratory Larry Cuba star wars 1977 death trench wireframe

Video Comments:
214scifi (November 12, 2008 at 10:56 am)
Just imagine what kind of hard-drive they had. It must have taken up two whole rooms!
sizetwo (November 2, 2008 at 10:12 pm)
This is absolutely amazing. Massive cred to the pioneers of our field of work.
deyoungparker (October 29, 2008 at 10:48 pm)
I used to bullseye Womp Rats in my T-16 back home.
GreenGestalt (October 20, 2008 at 3:29 am)
WOW!!!

Guys like you laid the foundation work for what is now possible even easy on a home computer. Thanks!
iPublicFigure (October 18, 2008 at 10:09 am)
Genius
MrBloody32 (October 14, 2008 at 12:33 am)
Imagine how long it would've taken to make Kung Fu Panda in 1977 using lines to form basic shapes and coloring them individually. It would've sucked!
threelegduck (October 17, 2008 at 10:52 am)
pardon me for asking sir, but do you think a kung fu panda would survive in the interstellar vacuum?
quasiphatpaul (October 11, 2008 at 10:40 am)
???
asaluste007 (October 10, 2008 at 2:26 am)
Word man!
bhnm9 (October 8, 2008 at 11:25 pm)
whatever