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- Jim Blinn
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- created voyager 2 space probe for NASA
- created voyager 2 space probe for NASA
- vol Libre
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- Loren Carpenter
- computer-animated flight over a completely synthetic landscape
- Pixar
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- Loren became Chief Scientist
- Tin Toy won an Academy Award for best animated short in 1989
- Turner Whitted
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- senior researcher in Microsoft Research's hardware devices and graphics groups
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Bio-Sensor
- Osaka University and Toyo Links
- technical demonstration of the development of met
- Stanley and Stella; Breaking the Ice
- by Symbolics Graphics andWhitney Demo Productions
- illustrates one of the first us
- The "TEAPOT"
- Rendering algorithm developed by Martin Newell at the University of Utah
- test texture mapping algo
- Brilliance
- Abel and Associates
- In-house software,raytracing, texture mapping, refractions, r
- Locomotion
- by PDI
- First example of squash and stretch in 3D.
- Don't Touch Me
- Kleiser/Walczak
- One of the first pieces to use motion capture
- The Little Death
- by Matt Elson of Symbolics
- a visual poem created for HDTV that uses behavioral an
- Growth Series
- Algorithmic Art
- Yoichiro Kawaguchi
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Mutations
- William Latham
- interest in Darwinian theory
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John Whitney
- Arabesque
- linked musical composition with experimental film and computer imaging
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- The Last Starfighter
- Digital Productions
- first film to employ computer-generated spaceships with over 30 minutes of CGI
- almost caused the demise of the budding CGI industry
- starships looked like cartoons - too new and shiny <
- Young Sherlock Holmes
- ILM
- first film to feature a computer-generated character
- first to use a laser recorder instead of CRT output. Laser-disks looked like big shiny old LP records. Very expensive
- Genesis Effect for Star Trek II
- Lucasfilm
- computations by Loren Carpenter (Vol Libre (fractals flight simulation))
- first commercial application for ILM
- First on-screen use of particle rendering to achieve the fiery effects
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- directed by Robert Zemeckis
- Last hurrah's of optical effects
- revolutionary in the world of compositing and an interesting case study of contract negotiations to
- The Abyss
- James Cameron, ILM
- utilizations of the developing computer "morph" technique, which seamlessly blends or meld one image into another
- first 3d morph
- First movie to require photo-realistic imagery
- Willow
- directed by Ron Howard, Effects, ILM
- first film to use 2D digital morphing and it helped spark the industry's interested in digital filmmaking. Each of the shots in the morphing sequence were shot separately using pupp
- Money for Nothing by Dire Straits
- First music video to use 3D animation. A line from this song "I want my MTV", set the stage for a an advertising campaign that would last for years
- Andre and Wally B
- Lucasfilms and John Lasseter
- piece demos motion blur and is the first recognized CG character animation
- Your Face - Bill Plympton
- first animator to draw every frame for an animated feature film entirely by himself
- 1970's - 1980's
basic rendering techniques are developed microcomputertechnology is introduced
standard microcomputer configuration - 8 bit CPU, nographic co-processors,