Early Computer Animation
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We looked at 3 early computer animation systems: GENESYS, KEY FRAME ANIMATION and CAMP. Who developed each and what are the primary characteristics of each?
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GENESYS-Ron Baecker and Lynn Smith.first animation language.KEY FRAME ANIMATION-Nestor Burtnyk and Marceli Wein. first departures from the m
- What did Frank Sinden create? What was it the first of?
- illustrated the educational potential of computer movies in his article "Synthetic Cinematography." first educational computer-generated film and a mission statement to demonstrate the power of computer animation.
- An artist named Stan Sztaba used CAMP to create a piece called Vegetable Soup. Why was this significant?
- first "second-generation" piece
- There are four eras of Computer Graphics. Name and define each one. Name one person or company from each era.
- Pioneers inventors, artists, researchers, and in the military. They pushed the limits of an evolving technology to take it past where scientists thought it could go.
- What did Michael Noll create? What was it the first of?
- created both scientific and artistic films at Bell Labs. Four-dimensional Hypercube stereoscopic projections calculated for two eyes and the stereo projections of moving four-dimensional objects
- What is Bell Labs?
- Kenneth Knowlton, Frank Sinden and A. Michael Noll were developing beginning experiments with the animated film.
- What is Moore’s Law?
- number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit w
- What were three barriers to computer graphics?
- high cost, lack of understanding of the type of software needed to generate pictures, Many of the early computer graphics were "toys"
- Who is Ben Laposky? What are Occillions?
- created the first graphic images generated by an electronic (analog) machine. oscillographic artworks
- Who is Charles Babbage? What did he invent?
- diference engines.
- Who is Ivan Sutherland? What did he create? What was it the “first:” of?
- hooking a Cathode Ray Tube up to the computer, wrote "Sketchpad"
- Who is Kenneth Knowlton. He created BEFLIX. What did this stand for? What was it?
- Bell Flicks, developing beginning experiments with the animated film.
- Who is William Fetter? What did he develop?
- coined the term "computer graphics", first draw the human figure using a computer