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Ian Failes
Personal blog · vfxblog.comculturehistory
Ian Failes writes vfxblog, a personal blog at vfxblog.com about culture and history. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on computer graphics to correct a claim about how Terminator 2 was rendered. The linked post covers the technology behind the film's visual effects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Visual effects and animation journalist Ian Failes
Most-linked posts?
- The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-29
- The SFX tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-12
What Hacker News says?
it wasn't ray-traced. It was done with renderman. At the time it didn't support raytracing. https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-o...
Comment linking /2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/
on “Global Illumination in WebGL”Submitted The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heads up: the oral history of Iron Man’s original HUD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device (DID) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dinosaur Input Device: how to survive the near death of stop-motion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SFX tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history as a story · 1 points
HN discussion