[vcf-midatlantic] Babylon 5 and the Amiga

[Matt Patoray]

Video Toaster, a frame at a time to Recordable LaserDisc with the GPIO
(Joystick) port used to trigger the single frame record when the rendering
was done. There was a room full of Amiga 2000 series machines with Video
Toaster cards for this process.

If anyone remembers my VideoToaster demo at VCF (before the Amiga went down
hard) it took about 45 min to render the greyscale version of the sample
chess piece, and this was on an A2000 that had a 68030 coprocessor card AKA
the Amiga 2500.

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 2:48 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> Yup, Amiga toaster and related tools.  I have a video about the making
> of...will post on you tube, or it may already be there, let me know if it's
> not.
> Bill
>
> Bill Degnan
> twitter: billdeg
> vintagecomputer.net
> On Feb 5, 2017 2:43 PM, "Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic" <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> I decided to create a separate thread from the one about the workshop.
>
> Babylon 5 is off topic, but the Amiga is on topic.
>
> I wanted to explore how the Amiga was used to create the computer generated
> graphics on Babylon 5. The creator of Babylon 5 called it CGI (Computer
> Generated Imagery). The show used Amigas because it was really advanced
> graphics at a much lower price than a Silicon Graphics workstation or
> whatever was available at the time. Deep Space Nine was also on the air at
> the same time, but they must have used something much more expensive.
>
> Does anyone know which software was used?
>
> Do the computer models used still exist from the TV show or were they lost?
>
>
> --
> Jeff Brace - ark72axow at gmail.com
>



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Matt Patoray
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