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The computer displays on "Hollow Man" were the first impressive ones
I've seen in a long time.

The button bar they were using looked quite a bit like KDE.


Its too bad Dan O'Bannon isn't still doing display design. His work on
Darkstar and Star Wars was fun, if a bit cheesey.

[RC]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, j mckitrick wrote:

> 
> This might be a REALLY stupid question, but here goes....
> 
> In movies with hi-tech or research premises, we often see
> sophisticated computer programs running on state of the art terminals.  Now,
> obviously, many times these are simply made-up special effects.  But, are
> there any REAL programs out there that inspired them?  For example,
> GUI-based real-time 3D molecule displays, frequency analyzers, real-time
> systems displays (like for satellites) or are all of these simply works of
> fiction?  If they *do* exist, do they run on proprietary OS's?  Unix? SGI
> workstations?
> 
> jm
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------
> Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org 
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