CAFF '89 Entry : Formation Aerobics
B/C 02742675
Reddifusion Simulation
SPX Visual Systems
SPX 500 – top of Nova View range " generated in real time at 50 frames /sec"
Long clips of flight simulation – aiming for flight realism.

• Oct 1984, The Six O'Clock News
• Nov 1984, Hamlet Advert, Robinson Lambie-Nairn
• Dec 1984, Book Four
• Jan 1985, Thames
• Feb 1985, SKY TV
• March 1985, Comet Simulation: Space, probes, return of Halles comet
• April 1985, Paul Daniels
• May 1985, Wimbledon
• June 1985, Gillette Blue II
• July 1985, Speedlink Distribution network
• Aug 1985, ITN C4 News
• Sept 1985, 9 O'Clock BBC News
• Oct 1985, The Business Programme
• Nov 1985, Bob Monkhouse
• Dec 1985, the Innovators
• Jan 1986, Smarties Advertisement,
  Des & Prod by Robinson Lambie-Nairn

Computer Graphics 1986, BBC Micro Live Programme
B/C 0274639 date: 1986
Rediffusion Simulation  : "These scenes are being generated
in real time " : Flight simulation etc,  50 frames/sec
Micro Live :  BBC TV programme
Historical information: computing context of mid 80's

• "The Amstrad phenomenon", IBM, Macintosh etc..
  Clive Sinclair, Alan sugar, Mercury Telecommunications
• How to do animations on home computer - exploiting graphics
  capabilities of home computers - in the context of the
  games industry boom - "Do your own animations!" 8-bit system,
  Software: Moviemaker by Slippery Slug : "Hardware forces compromise"
  Example of Amiga 32-bit system - Hardware
  Software: Paint, for generating images ; De Luxe Video, for animation
• High Resolution 3-D Computer Animation:
  Lesley Judd presents prizes at the Computer Animation Film Festival,
  at Computer Graphics '86
  First Prize: 'Hot Air' by Sanda National Labs
  Dr. John Vince in the studio, Computer Animators " tackle problems most
  people would avoid", discusses the winning animations
  with Judd, 'Hot Air' features fractals, refraction, water etc,
  "Graphic designers are moving in - Computer animation companies
  are springing up everywhere!"
• Virgin, CG arm of Virgin, in Soho:
  Graphic designers and a computer scientist persuaded Virgin
  they could make new images
  Using: Silicon Graphics 32-bit system, and their own software
  Digitizing 2-D images and translating into 3-D
  3-D real time image manipulation
• Examples of Middlesex Polytechnic Research students work at
  the Computer Animation Film Festival, Computer Graphics '86
  'Heads' by Keith Waters (Mrs Thatcher head model based on
  model of Spitting Image caricature)
  'Soliloquy' by Semmania Cheung
  Winner of the Student section: Keith Waters
  Supreme award for achievement: Keith Waters
   

• Twizzlers (multi-screen mouths)
• Proflex (3-D capsules simulation)
• The Barclays Home Mortgage (3-D House construction)
• Seven Seas Multi-Vitamins (early compositing/ 3-D tablets)
• Esso (Road simulation and Billboards)
• TVS - Film of the Series
• Rank/Kodak/C4/The Moving Picture Company  (early figure animation)
• Marks and Spencer
• Halifax (3-D logo)
• Cilla's Surprise! Surprise!
   

Creative Computer Graphics
Computer Animation  B/C 02735881  date: 1983
Back Stage Productions, Inc
Computer Pictures Magazine Presents:

• Rediffusion / Evans and Sutherland
  Flight Simulation Software - showing in action
  historical clip about history of flight simulation - showing 1950's analogue
  television flight simulator, camera over model terrain etc.
• Molecular structure of DNA
  Research Institute of Scripps Clinic  - molecular Biology Visualisation
  Scientific Visualisation - Los Alamos National Laboratory : active in
  Computer Graphics since the early 1960's
• GE/CAE International - engineering products prototype
  CAD :  Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp : Car Design
  1972 sequence by MAGI Synthavision : One of the first Commercial applications of CG
• Architectural Visualisation : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (architects)
  Robert, Abel and Associates (Computer Visualisation)
  Cranston/Csuri Productions, and Digital Effects, Inc "Cities seen from a new Perspective"
  fly-through of city
• Tutorial : Key Computer Graphics Concepts
  Pictures by Jim Blinn : 14 year overview of development of CG systems
  1962 : Wireframe Model
  1964 : Hidden Line
  1969 : Faceted Surfaces
  1973 : Smooth Shading
  1976 : Texture Mapping
  Modelling : Analogy of Sculpture to 3-D modelling, rather than Painting
  New York Institute of Technology/ CGL examples
  Object Description : Numerical or Graphical
  Model Types : Wireframe, Solid
  Transformation :  New York Institute of Technology demonstrate rotation, scaling
  Rendering : New York Institute of Technology CGL demonstrates
  Plotter Drawings
  Vector Display : Vectors make up model on CRT (analogue)
  Raster Images : Pixels - Shaded images, Raster Display
  Surface Properties : Image enhancements : James F. Blinn teapots
  Early examples : Animations by : Dave Weiner, MAGI Synthavision, Cranston Csuri Productions
  and Turner / Whitted at Bell Labs whose work included the first picture to include:
  Perspective, Refraction, Transparency, Shadows, Texturing, and Reflection in a single algorithm...
• Business Graphics, Paint Systems, 2-D Animation Systems
  Analogue systems Kron TV/ Aurora systems, Computer Graphics Lab Inc, NYIT,
  MCI/Quantel , 2-D Animation - analogue. In the 1960's Lee Harrison of Computer Image Corp
  pioneered analogue animation for 2-D computer graphics, "Automating routine tasks"
  Digital 2-D animation systems : Computer Creations, Kadabrascope/CGL, Inc -
  Using Digitizing tablets to display key frame drawings on Screen
  NYIT developed their own 3-D System - 3-D Animation companies :
  Acme Cartoon Co. Inc
  Digital Effects, Inc
  Sachs, Finley and Co
• New York Institute of Technology 3-D Animation system Dancing Figure animation - animator
  uses Joy-stick to interact and animate the figure using their software
• Applications
  Storyboards transformed into adverts
  Fox Video Games/ MAGI Synthavision "Worm War" Computer Game
  John H. Whitney, Snr -  clips from "Permutations"
  Digital Effects Inc : Video for  "Subway"  by The Clash
  James F. Blinn  : Metamorphosis demo - sophisticated