![]() ![]() "And now, it's the story of my life, this pleasant thread. ![]() ![]() "At some point in my life, probably as I was stepping on my kid's 'Star Wars' figures in the middle of the night, I couldn't believe this stuff never went away," said Tom DeFanti, the former director of EVL and an early developer of computer graphics. That memorable animated schematic - the imaging of the Death Star trench that Luke Skywalker must navigate, the illustration of how a single missile could breach a "small thermal exhaust port" and blow up the Empire's orbiting rumpus room, a sequence that looks as crude and skeletal in 2017 as an Etch A Sketch drawing - came from a brick building in University Village at Taylor and Halsted streets, courtesy of a ragtag squadron of computer artists and scientists at UIC's Electronic Visualization Laboratory. ![]()
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