This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
- The first movie to do all special effects (except makeup) on a computer.
All shots of spacecraft, space, etc generated on a CRAY computer. Some
objects had over 300 000 polygons, but all of the special effects shots for
the movie took only eight hours to generate.
 
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