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BONUS: Famous Quotes

The MGM movie "Forbidden Planet" is a sci-fi cult classic. If the movie had been produced entirely in Bryce 5, it might have been titled: "Forbidden Bryce" and some of the more memorable lines might have been as follows:

Scene: Robby meets the Commander and his crew right after the ship has landed.

Robby: "Welcome to Bryce 5, gentlemen."

Scene: Morbius is demonstrating Robby's Prime Directive

Morbius: "Commander, may I borrow that rather formidable looking object you are carrying?"

He gives it to Robby: "You understand its function?"

Robby: "Yes, Morbius, a simple imported mesh. Obviously from an inferior modeling program."

Scene: Dr. Morbius is showing the Commander and Doc his laboratory

Morbius: "As you can see here, gentlemen, this software is obviously designed for a brain much larger than my own. Now if you will allow me to demonstrate."

Doc: "Is that an image I see rendering?"

Morbius: "Why yes it is. I'm rendering an image of Altera. Her polygons are being ray-traced as we speak because they are continually ray-traced in my mind."

Commander: "And you don't even need Poser to do it. Amazing!"

Morbius: "Not really. I merely imported her into my workspace."

The Doctor picks up a book.

Morbius: "Don't touch that!"

Doc: "What is it?"

Morbius: "The Bryce 5 manual. If you attempt to read it, it could kill you!"

Commander: "Yet you read it and survived?"

Morbius: "After I read that manual gentlemen, I lay unconscious for a day and a night!"

Scene: Morbius is showing the Commander and Doc the Power Core

Morbius: "Now be sure and look only at the rendered image. Man does not look into the face of a wireframe and live!"

Doc: "But, but there's so much energy!"

Morbius: "The power of 100,000 Boolean calculations right at the core of the image. And it goes on, and on, and on."

Scene: Morbius is showing the Commander and Doc the Vent Shafts

Morbius: "20 Bryce units long, gentlemen!" (He points in the other direction.) "Again, 20 Bryce units long, and above us, over 71 hundred Boolean Groups!"

Scene: Robby arrives at the ship with some objects.

Commander: "Are those 2-D planes you're carrying?"

Robby: "Oh, no sir. 2-D planes would have crushed the vehicle. This is my morning's run of torus diameter 237. The whole thing hardly comes to 16,908 polygons."

Scene: Altera asks Robby to make her a fancy new dress.

Altera: "Oh, Robby, I need your finest creation. It must have a wonderful material from the Materials Lab, and jewels Robby, lots of jewels."

Robby: "Would you prefer diamonds or emeralds? Diamonds take a week to render in the volumetric world."

Scene: The ship after being attacked the first time.

Watch Officer: "Commander, it's not possible, that crewman had his arms torn out by their origin points!"

Scene: The ship is being attacked by something unseen.

Doc: "No wonder no one has seen this thing. It must be a hidden object. It can't even render, yet there it is!"

Commander: "Switch to wire frame mode. Then we'll see what we're dealing with!"

Scene: Doc has taken a Bryce 5 Brain Boost (he read the manual). This has mortally wounded him (his brain is too small to contain all the data). Commander Adams hears his last words:

Doc: "Morbius doesn't see it, he's too close to the monitor. They accomplished their great work, but they forgot one thing-- Objects, John, Objects from the Create Palette!"

Scene: Altera, Commander Adams and Dr. Morbius are hiding in the Materials Lab, being pursued by something unknown. The Commander berates Morbius for his denial of the facts:

Commander: "Yes Morbius, all this technology, all this software, designed to do only one thing. Provide an image, ANY IMAGE Morbius, whenever you click the render button! Imagine it, Morbius, 1,187,792 polygons rendered in a single night! And all because YOU asked it to!"

Scene: Dr. Morbius realizes what wiped out the original inhabitants of the planet.

Morbius "My poor objects. They hardly knew what hit them. In a single instant, they grouped themselves with Negative Booleans and were wiped out of the virtual workspace!"

Commander: "And that's exactly what will happen to us unless you depress the cancel button!"

Morbius: But you forget one thing commander-- my daughter is a Neutral Boolean, she can't be affected."

Commander: "Not any more, Morbius, she's grouped herself to me!"

Morbius: "Altera, say it isn't so!"