** Did Reference material come with the original tape?

Back Stage Productions, Inc

Computer Pictures Magazine Presents:

i) Rediffusion / Evans and Sutherland

Flight Simulation Software - showing in action

GOOD historical clip about history of flight simulation - showing 1950's

analogue

television flight simulator, camera over model terrain etc.

ii) 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 - GOOD historical data

iii) 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

iv) Architectural Visualisation : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (architects)

Robert, Abel and Associates (Computer Visualisation)

Cranston/Csuri Productions

Digital Effects, Inc

"Cities seen from a new Perspective"  fly-through of city, very TRON

v) 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

Remarkable early examples : Animated image 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...

vi) Business Graphics, Paint Systems, 2-D Animation Systems

GOOD Early stuff:

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

vii) 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 - (good interaction!)

viii) Applications

Storyboards transformed into adverts - very 1980's!

Fox Video Games/ MAGI Synthavision "Worm War" Computer Game

John H. Whitney, Snr -  clips from "Permutations" GREAT

Digital Effects Inc : Video for  "Subway"  by The Clash

James F. Blinn  : Metamorphosis demo - sophisticated transformations in 3-D