was to make a feature-length movie with computers.

都还是用电脑做出一部电影长片
At least all of us, that was what we wanted to do.

至少我们所有的人都想那么做
Even though it seemed impossible at the time.

只是那时候似乎很不可能
If you wanna make a picture of the world,

如果你想画一张世界地图
you somehow have to get all that data in the computer.

就得设法把所有数据输入到电脑里面
All the geometry, no matter what, whether it's hairs or skin or whatever,

所有的几何资料不管它是不是重要
is broken down into millions of little triangles

都得拆解成数以百万计的小三角形
that are so small they would just be a speck on the screen.

而且它们小到在银幕上只是一个小点而已
The group soon realized

这群人很快便发现
it would take not thousands,

想做出如今人们在动画电影中
but millions of triangles to create the photo-realistic images

所看到的写实画面所需要的不是数千个三角形
that compose the animated films we see today.

而是数以百万计的三角形