{"id":1113,"date":"2003-04-14T17:08:49","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T07:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/14\/from-berkeley-to-the-matrix\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:49:48","slug":"from-berkeley-to-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/14\/from-berkeley-to-the-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"From Berkeley to the Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14845,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/wired\\\/archive\\\/11.05\\\/matrix2.html?pg=1&amp;topic=&amp;topic_set=&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/wired\\\/archive\\\/11.05\\\/matrix2.html?pg=1&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14846,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\\\/rl_cmp\\\/trailer_final_frames.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/redirectore.warnerbros.com\\\/BFROM=whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\\\/rl_cmp\\\/trailer_final_frames.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14847,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.debevec.org\\\/Campanile&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pauldebevec.com\\\/Campanile&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13342,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org\\\/remainder\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080808113446\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org\\\/remainder\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 09:25:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 06:33:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 06:33:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Wired has a great article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.05\/matrix2.html?pg=1&amp;topic=&amp;topic_set=\" title=\"Wired 11.05: Matrix2\">special effects of the Matrix<\/a> and its upcoming sequels (and speaking of which, the full trailer for The Matrix: Reloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\/rl_cmp\/trailer_final_frames.html\" title=\"Matrix Reloaded\">has been released<\/a>, and kicks <em>much<\/em> butt).<\/p>\n<p>In the course of the article, Wired mentions that much of the inspiration and technology for the more eye-catching special effects in the Matrix films were drawn from a project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debevec.org\/Campanile\/\" title=\"The Campanile Movie\">The Campanile Movie<\/a>, which is fascinating in its own right. The basic concept is taking photographs of an area and then wrapping them around a 3-D rendered landscape in order to create a photorealistic virtual environment. They explain it much better than I do, though&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/index.html\" title=\"kottke.org: remainder\">Jason Kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired mentions that much of the inspiration and technology for the more eye-catching special effects in the Matrix films were drawn from a project called The Campanile Movie, which is fascinating in its own right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,1730],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-the-matrix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}