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> James Cameron's special-effects company, Digital Domain, which used the operating system to help create the illusions in "Titanic."

I know this is a random tangent from the core theme of the article. But I found it funny that in 1998 we describe CGI as "illusions".

my memory is that the most common term to use there would have been "special effects", and "illusions" would have seemed strange even then

One of the greatest CGI (and more) companies in history is George Lucas's ILM: Industrial Light and Magic.