Paramount Pictures: Genesis Planet
Artist(s):
Title:
- Genesis Planet
Exhibition:
Creation Year:
- 1982
Medium:
- Photograph of raster image
Category:
Artist Statement:
- Position in 3D space
- Velocity (speed and direction)
- Color
- Lifetime (how long it is active)
- Age
- Shape
- Size
- Transparency
For the Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan Genesis Effect scene, Reeves and his colleagues were trying to create a wall of fire spreading out from the point of impact of a projectile on a planetary surface. Every particle in Reeve’s system was a single point in space and the wall of fire was represented by thousands of these individual points. Each particle had the following attributes:
Extracted from: https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/chapter/19-1-particle-systems-and-artificial-life/ “19.1 Particle Systems and Artificial Life”
Other Information:
THE UNIVERSAL SPHERES 1986
The Universal Spheres reflect technical advances in computer graphics as expressed in spherical objects.
