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ActionZero
Jan 22, 2011

I act once more in
imitation of light

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

For high-tech tasks, a computer program called MASSIVE made armies of CG orcs, elves, and humans. These digital creations could 'think' and battle independently - identifying friend or foe - thanks to individual fields of vision. Peter Jackson's team could click on one creature in a crowd scene of 20,000 and see through his "eyes". Different species even boast unique fighting styles.

My favourite thing about this is that for one of the first times they tried to use MASSIVE to simulate a battle both armies immediately turned around and fled from the battlefield. The created soldiers all valued their lives too highly to risk going into combat.

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