Is that absolute fact? I'm sure I've seen that freeze and rotate technique many, many years before The Matrix.
Yes. The source is
http://www.britannica.com/magazine?ebsco_id=84556&pager.offset=10
ErdemTuzun
Ahhh, apologies, I figured it was refering to the other technique (as described above), but what it that called? I remember seeing it years ago on the
BBCs Tomorrow's World.
The freeze-and-pan effect existed before the movie; the technique the movie used to achieve it was new. The effect first appeared in commercials (notably the "Khakis Swing" commercial for The Gap). In the earlier versions, only a handful of cameras surrounded the scene and frames were digitally tweened to create the smooth pan. In the "bullet time" technique, hundreds of cameras are used to get precise views at all angles, and the hard work is managing the enormous amount of data. --LDC
The freeze-and-pan effect existed before, but what about the slow-down-and-pan effect? That's what bullet time is.
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The Cunctator
Didn't the film's producers have something to say about the fairly blatant violation of the laws of thermodynamics (along the lines of "yeah, we knew it was crap but the original reason for keeping people in the matrix (as a source of random inspiration for computing stuff, IIRC) was too hard to explain?"
used bioelectric energy to spark fusion reactors wasn't it? this should be easily verifiable, since I suppose someone could watch it again.
It's bull. It's not meant to be taken any more scientifically than Kryptonite in the Superman stories. :-)
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