30 years ahead of its time?
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2011/07/01/lah.japan.cg.video.star.cnn?&hpt=hp_c2
The rise of the virtual celebrity.
Now, where is my flash gun to make people freeze?
Apart from the early solid and shaded CGI used there were also ideas way ahead of their time. The idea of 3d scanning a complex shape like a human body by means of a laser came to reality in about the late '90s! Also digital eye pupil-tracking came at least a decade later after Crichton thought of writing about it. I am sure he always kept an eye on scientific mags and what the universities were researching but still.. Good 80s movie!
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