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Source: Gizmodo / Curtiss Spontelli

This is a video documentary about how one scene in Episode IV was prepared, the scene in particular is when the rebel pilots were planning how to attack the Death Star. The Commander showed them an animation of the Death Star and where to fire. Of course, this is 1976, no high end computer graphics cards exists yet, so Larry Cuba describe the steps in the 3D modeling based on photographs of the real miniature models. Check how he's controlling the rotation in real time (awesome) with big controls (no mouse neither exists). The final touch was to render each scene, shot by shot, in the computer screen with and automatic camera capturing in film. Via Topless Robot .

Before I must say, I have a laptop with dual boot, Mandriva in Dr. Jekyll and MS-Vista was Mr. Hyde. Yes, it was because two days ago I decided to update to the well recommended Win7. Few days ago I received a legal and nice DVD with the OS, the 64 bits version to upgrade Vista Home Premium. Then, I backup all my personal data. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5520, AMD Athlon 64 x2, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD , Nvidia 7000M, since I have it, I never touch the disc partitions, because the disc was already divided into 3, one part for the Acer recovery tools (3 GB), 70 GB for Vista, and the rest I used for Mandriva (from 2007 to now 2010 versions). Everything works, well, of course Vista was slow and frustrating, I keep it because I share this computer and when I had time, I played games unsupported in Linux. After the bunnies convinced me to upgrade, I put the disc and upgrade to W7. Easy, after few clicks and 1 hr, W7 was installed. I rebooted the laptop, and waited for the final installat

The next is nice and educational video about computer history and the future, I like the analogies with biological systems. Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo .