How physics simulations and GNU emacs found their way into Tron Legacy

Software developer JT Nimoy has an amazing solicitation of images from Tron Legacy on his site , where he explains all the math , aperient , and onetime - school computer geekery that he put into create Flynn ’s digital Earth .

First , he discourse how complicated it was to make computer - generated fireworks that had what seems like a kind of 8 - second feel .

About the fireworks , Nimoy says :

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I take off with a regular physics simulation where a particle has an up strength applied at birth , station it upwards while sobriety pulls it back down resulting in a parabola . I then append particle - baby , followed by various esthetic style , including what our team has called “ egyptian ” across several jobs — which is a side - stepping behavior . We were trying to create fireworks that look enough like genuine fireworks but had interesting techno - esthetical . As a homage to the original Tron character Bit , we used icosahedron , dodecahedron , and like . I was disappoint that Bit is n’t in this one . After doing this feigning , I ’ve grown more aware of how often firework are used in movies .

you may see the fireworks he developed in the gallery .

I sleep with Nimoy ’s word of how the old - school day , totally awesome GNU emacs editor in chief wound up in the flick :

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