As the wizard credited for special effects in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner, and the Back to the Future attraction at Universal Studios, Trumbull is one of the few artists capable of creating virtual-reality based attractions that can compete with theme parks or major motion pictures. That's what Circus Circus did with Luxor, a 30-story glass pyramid built around Trumbull's entertainment complex. Alvy Ray Smith has been quoted as estimating, Trumbull wants 500 million. We have 40 SGI workstations from Indigos to Crimsons and three IBM PVS systems working around the clock doing rendering and digital compositing. Major number- crunching.
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways.
Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right. Inc. All rights reserved.