Editing Silicon Graphics (section)

===Entertainment industry===
For eight consecutive years (1995–2002), all films nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for Distinguished Achievement in Visual Effects were created on Silicon Graphics computer systems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digitalcontentproducer.com/news/video_sgi_sweeps_academy|title=News, Features, Reviews, Forums and Resources for the Professional Content Creator - Creative Planet Network|website=Creative Planet Network|access-date=March 25, 2018}}</ref> The technology was also used in commercials for a host of companies.

An [[SGI Crimson]] system with the fsn<ref>[http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool-from-jurassic-park/ FSN — File System Navigator] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208105356/http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool-from-jurassic-park/ |date=February 8, 2014 }} at siliconbunny.com</ref> [[3D computer graphics|three-dimensional]] file system navigator appeared in the 1993 movie ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/jpark.html|title=sgistuff.net|author=Gerhard Lenerz|access-date=April 17, 2015}}</ref>

In the movie ''[[Twister (1996 film)|Twister]]'', protagonists can be seen using an SGI laptop computer; however, the unit shown was not an actual working computer, but rather a fake laptop shell built around an SGI Corona LCD flat screen display.<ref>[http://www.bftr.com/Pages/projects/twister.html Banned From the Ranch Entertainment&nbsp;— Twister] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820193238/http://www.bftr.com/Pages/projects/twister.html |date=August 20, 2008 }} at bftr.com.</ref>

The 1995 film ''[[Congo (film)|Congo]]'' also features an SGI laptop computer being used by Dr. Ross ([[Laura Linney]]) to communicate via satellite to TraviCom HQ.<ref>[http://www.siliconbunny.com/silicon-graphics-laptops/ SGI Laptops] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109195246/http://www.siliconbunny.com/silicon-graphics-laptops/ |date=November 9, 2018 }} at siliconbunny.com</ref>

The purple, lowercased "'''sgi'''" logo can be seen at the beginning of the opening credits of the [[HBO]] series [[Silicon Valley (TV series)|''Silicon Valley'']], before being taken down and replaced by the [[Google]] logo as the intro graphics progress.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Kayla |last=Cobb |date=June 20, 2016 |title=Tracking The Changing Opening Credits Of 'Silicon Valley' |website=Decider |url=https://decider.com/2016/06/20/tracking-silicon-valley-opening-credits/ |access-date=September 3, 2024}}</ref> Google leased the former SGI buildings in 2003 for their headquarters in [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]], CA until they purchased the buildings outright in 2006.<ref>{{cite news
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Once inexpensive PCs began to have graphics performance close to the more expensive specialized graphical workstations which were SGI's core business, SGI shifted its focus to high performance servers for [[digital video]] and the Web. Many SGI graphics engineers left to work at other computer graphics companies such as [[ATI Technologies|ATI]] and [[Nvidia]], contributing to the PC 3D graphics revolution.