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March 04, 2006

Google Visualization - the Genesis Effect?

Sometimes it is a long trail that leads to a blog posting.

from grockwel: Research Notes: Google Visualizations

Looks like Google has been developing demo visualizations, see Even More Google Photos.

which leads me to Yoz Flickring photos from the Googleplex

[Google Genesis]

which looks disturbingly to me like the Genesis Effect from Star Trek II, which led me to search for some images

[Genesis Effect]

(from A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation)

And also to today's info tidbit, perhaps of use in some future Trivial Pursuit you may be playing

[The] "Genesis sequence" was the first completely computer-generated sequence in a film (created by the Lucasfilm division). It just beat Tron (1982) into release to take the honor of being the first film to use computer-generated images (CGI).

from Milestones in Film History: Greatest Visual and Special Effects, Part 3

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