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Jurassic Park computer system in the browser
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Re: Jurassic Park computer system in the browser
#42The Jurassic Park Computer System...created and maintained by Newman. Credit where credit is due: it takes a lot of skills to keep a bunch of velociraptors pent up using a Macintosh LC II. What always amused me is that in order to trigger the locks, the "computer whiz" girl had to navigate some sort of 3d control environment, probably the most ineffective way possible to control something that should be random access…
>Macintosh LC II
It's actually a Quadra 700. Business class all the way at Jurassic Park.
Re: Jurassic Park computer system in the browser
#43The Jurassic Park Computer System...created and maintained by Newman. Credit where credit is due: it takes a lot of skills to keep a bunch of velociraptors pent up using a Macintosh LC II. What always amused me is that in order to trigger the locks, the "computer whiz" girl had to navigate some sort of 3d control environment, probably the most ineffective way possible to control something that should be random access…
She navigated the file system using fsn (which by the way existed. it just never catch on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn )
There is a collection of 3D interfaces here http://nooface.net/3dui.shtml
With modern GPUs and processing power these could be made silky smooth. Still mostly pointless, which is a shame.
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#44Some other commands... > access main security system please > display zebraGirl.jpg
> system Raptor
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#45SGI IRIX operating system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX I used that at my first programming internship at university. Even then (1999) it was a dated OS, but it was still fun it. I wonder if they used IRIX in the movie because the VFX guys making the movie, ILM, were doing all the VFX work using Softimage on SGI machines running IRIX at the time.
Apparently the specific "It's a Unix system" scene used an experimental fsn (file system navigator) that SGI developed but which was never released as a product.
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#46You should've seen the grin on my face when Newman's smug little face started speaking to me. You've fulfilled a childhood dream for me, thank you.
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#47I like the irony of the site telling me not to use Safari.
Just sent a PR that fixes this. https://github.com/tojrobinson/jurassicsystems.com/pull/4
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#48SGI IRIX operating system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX I used that at my first programming internship at university. Even then (1999) it was a dated OS, but it was still fun it. I wonder if they used IRIX in the movie because the VFX guys making the movie, ILM, were doing all the VFX work using Softimage on SGI machines running IRIX at the time.
Yeah, good memories.
SGI machines were beautiful, full stop.
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#49Really nice recreation. Why the annoying dialog repeatedly telling me not to use Safari though? It seemed to work fine for me in Safari.
Seems it shows up each time the site tries to play short audio clips. See starting line 32 in http://www.jurassicsystems.com/js/jurassicSystems.js Instead of feature detection it'll use HTML5 audio in Chrome, show an annoying dialog in Safari, and an SWF fallback for anything else. edit: Here's the GitHub issue for it https://github.com/tojrobinson/jurassicsystems.com/issues/1
Hopefully this will be fixed with https://github.com/tojrobinson/jurassicsystems.com/pull/4
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#50The zebra girl is a nice touch.