The special effects for the computer-display in the glider from John Carpenter's Escape From New York (1981) are really neat.
They're a neat wireframe display of the city, presumably from some kind of radar.
Conversation
Here's a picture of what the model looked like when lit normally.
From wearethemutants.com/2017/02/14/the
5
29
279
The answer is remarkably simple, and shows how much they had to work to do even the simplest effects back in those days...
They painted them onto glass, then had a motorized camera move down them!
from artofthetitle.com/title/star-war
5
19
118
