Back in 1977 there were no Maya, no shaders, no spacemouse…

Here’s another video from the EVL, the lab that created the Cave :

(1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac&sdig=1[/youtube]