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Trammell Hudson

The original artist describes their Fortran code that rendered the Nostromo's vector landing display in "Alien": archive.org/details/creativeco

cover image from the article "Landing the Nostromo" by Alan Sutcliffe with a vector rendering of the mountains and flat spot in the middle
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Alan Sutcliffe, Landing the Nostromo, Creative Computing Magazine (June 1981) Volume 07 No 06, p. 48-54

"The hardware to be used was a Prime 300 connected to an FR 80 from III which can plot directly onto cine-film. Running on this system at the SRC laboratories in Oxfordshire was the software animation package, Frolic, developed by C.Emmett.

My program was written in Fortran with calls to Frolic subroutines."

The whole project was 14 pages of code.

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Jan 15, 2025, 06:20 PM·Public
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