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
It was an absurd number.

那是个很荒谬的数字
But it was meant to be an absurd number,

它本来就应该是一个荒谬的数字
because if you throw some big numbers at something

因为当你从比较宏观的角度来看事情时
and then you have to be able to handle them,

要能够掌握它们才行
then it makes you think about the problem in different ways.

它让你用不同的方式来思考问题
Right then and there, that changed our whole, you know, kind of mindset about the sort of problem that we were trying to solve.

当时为了设法解决所面对的问题