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Latest revision as of 13:18, 12 January 2020
The machine that did the Death Star.
It was animated by Larry Cuba, located at Circle Graphics Habitat (now known as the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, or EVL) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and run by Tom Defanti, who also developed the GRASS language.
Today, that machine is restored and owned by Steve Heminover, discussing the restoration process here (at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2019)
Parts
One panel contains knobs, one buttons. "Digitizing tablet" for tracing outlines of Death Star to computer (in "The Star Wars Connection UIC").
The "screen" unit is called the Vector General.
Ressources
Watch his talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mtLUws1bOk
In 1974, Steve Heminover became a part of the Circle Graphics Habitat at UIC, an early pioneer of computer graphics modeling and animation. One of the most famous outputs of this group was the use of the Vector General Graphics Display to display the 3-D wireframe animation for Star Wars, featuring Larry Cuba's groundbreaking work. In this talk, Steve goes over that history, how he obtained the original Vector General Graphics Display used for Star Wars, how the restoration process progressed, and the final result: Viewing the Death Star on the very screen it was filmed from.
The Star Wars Connection UIC: https://news.wttw.com/2013/05/23/star-wars-connection
