Be Not Deceived

Recently Disney has produced a new movie called “Dinosaurs” in which computers were used to create animated dinosaurs that were merged with real landscape videos in such a way that it was virtually impossible to distinguish what was real from that which was computer generated. An article in “Newsweek” described the techniques used to make the skin of the dinosaurs jiggle with each step and wrinkle with the movements of the gigantic bodies. The movie represented the cutting edge of technology in...