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From: ab391@torfree.net (Jasper Li)
Subject: Waterworld effects
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 05:38:55 GMT
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In one scene from the movie Waterworld, a huge oil tanker is shown 
floating in the ocean.  The shot was originally taken from a tanker built 
in a desert and then the water was added in by hand later on.  This was a 
long labourious process.  Wouldn't it have been possible to develop an 
algorithm where you tell it where the initial border around the boat is 
and then it adjusts that border as the sequence plays?  It shouldn't be 
too hard, since the boat doesn't not move or change shape.  It would have 
saved some guy hundreds of hours of work.

Is there something wrong with this idea?
-- 
ab391@freenet.toronto.on.ca (Jasper Li) 
Student, programmer and amateur futurist
"The only obstacle in my pursuit of knowledge is my time online, the 
speed of my modem and the distance to the nearest library.", myself.
