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There was recently a small exhibition of Lilian Schwartz' work at the Henry Ford Museum. Interestingly she'd worked with some people on some similar abstract films.

Looking back at the core history of computer graphics is always amazing and heartwarming! I started my journey as a 3D animator back in 1981 when I started to follow the work of Dr. James Blinn, at that time he was at NASA-JPL, after watching the animations he did for the arriving of Voyager 2 to Saturn. At that time I was still in highschool. In 1982 I started to study my BSc in Physics and I started to browse many ACM-SIGGRAPH magazines trying to understand how he did such amazing work. Back in 1988, I did my very first 2D computer animation on a PC 8086 with a program I wrote in Pascal that simulated two galaxies collision and recording the output to an old Sony Betamax I had at home. Finally back in 1990 I did my very first 3D animation, of course a journey to Saturn to pay a humble homage to Dr. Blinn, on a two processor SGI machine using The Advanced Visualizer that was made by Wavefront Technologies at their lovely HQ in Santa Barbara, California. (The fusion of Wavefront and Alias, did as result the now famous Maya software, that is widely used at Hollywood). That animation was at the Visualization Lab of the Supercomputer Center of National University of Mexico, where also I did studied physics. Later from 1993 to 1995 I worked for Wavefront Technologies being the tech support manager and later the general manager for Mexico. Finally, back in 1999 while I was attending to SIGGRAPH '99 held at the Convention Center of L.A., I had the great luck and honor to meet in person Dr. James Blinn! And of course I thanked him to being my very early inspiration to be a professional 3D animator. I did some research on computer history at the National University back in 1996, and even I did a virtual reality (VRML) museum of the history of computing and a TV documentary about the history of computing at the National University of Mexico that began in 1958, that I wrote and directed too. Thank you very much for this amazing video and keep posting such amazing videos on your great channel! Greetings from Mexico City.

Think this is my fave video of yours so far! Great and interesting find.

Thank you for sharing that. I've never heard or seen it. Very creative use of the spirograph patterns. I especially like superimposed lines at 4:42.

Very cool! Truly an interesting piece of both computing history and art history. I'm assuming that's a vector-based display?

yeah more bridge or railroad or tunnel will be amazing sir

Damn, IBM had Windows Media Player way back in '68

A valuable piece of history. This has a lot of "movie magic" in it. This is a composite of many screens. The images were all black and white. Colors came from filters so this dictates that layers was used. The movie magic makes the film look way "cooler" than watching the screen would have been as this would be an electronic example of stop motion. Great bit of history. Great of example of how to use film and filters to create something interesting that would have been rather dull to watch. The motion has been speeded up significantly by the film maker. This reminded me of the TRS-80 program that I wrote to plot cardioids using the SET command in the graphics. It was 9 lines of code with the equation embedded in the code. It drew the X-Y axis and plotted the cardioid. This was in 1981. I was also a full time videographer for 10 years so I could see some of the movie magic. This bit about using filters for color tipped me off.

Somehow you can feel that this was just rooms away from the famous LSD research at UCLA of that time 😂

That must have been some badass computer for it's time to be able to do this. And a decent programmer.

In the 70s undergraduate comp sci students were making movies by painting one frame at time on a Tektronix 4010 display and photographing it with a film camera. The film was then shown like a regular film. The University of London had a networked service for this. I think sending the screen clear command effectively advanced the frame. You could dump to fiche or 35mm as well.

It's a "demo" in the spirit of the kind of programming that would become cache in the 1980's with the sub-MIP 8 bit computers popular in that decade.

≈ 40 years ago, I had a demo one for a month (the one I had needed to boot from disk with the OS/language, though). It left such a big impression on me that for years, this was my idea of the perfect computer…

And here is a link to a more traditional animation technique, which became mainstream in 25 years. It is a frame animation of a cat (the film title is "kitty") made by students from the USSR on a computer from the USSR (BESM-4 "big electronic computing machine") at the time they yet built domestic computers. ruclips.net/video/JWiWYqvP0BU/видео.html

I'm sure older viewers of the time just dismissed it as an "electronic kaleidoscope"

Im very curious how long each frame took to render. In guessing several seconds based on the number of apparent trig operations on display

Well into the 1970s quite a lot of computer animation was done that way: using multiple exposures onto film rather than a framebuffer.

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By searching about Dr. Jack Citron, it seems that this was not the first and not the only such film made with a computer around those times. Homage to Rameau (1967), Permutations (1968) and Osaka 1-2-3 (also 1968) are few that I find about.

this is the first (and only) entry to Assembly '68. incredible.

Wow, mindblowing for the 1960s

That was mystical and very impressive and to think it was done on a computer in 1968 and filmed like a movie hah.

It is cool af.

we need an HD scan, if you can't do it right, let us wait until someone can

This is the spiritual forefather of the demoscene.

Wow, that’s a demo worth an Adobe keygen !

What kind of Terminal was used for Graphics on the s/360? as TN3270 to my knowledge cannot do graphics only text

That was pretty cool. He even tried for a bit a audio syncing

1. This must be the first demo ever made. A demo as in Demoscene. 2. Watching this in real life from CRT would be much more fascinating.

Explanation of how the colour (EN-CAN = color ;-) effects were done is appreciated - simple if you know how. Probably best watched when not under "the influence " of drugs available in that era ;-) Put me in mind of Pink Floydd. Thank you for sharing your research directly rather than doing the "link in the description" thing.

I like how you bring us in to your office to talk about commodore stuff BUT please please post at least 1080P videos. your 720 video on a 1080P 55 inch screen is really fuzzy.

Great video bro. I been trying to get my money from W+ and it's a pain in the butt.

i do have a same unit, also the 3498A

C128 really is great! I never sold my first Commodore C128, but i don't have it anymore anyway {that's a double tragedy } As the times were back then, i went to work abroad and my C128 stayed at home. C128 was of course immediately used by my relatives and it went from one home to another. {yes, i said, you can use it } ...until nobody had any idea where it is when i came home ... As many other previous owners of Commodore C128 i bought it again {have C128, C128D and 2x 1571, 1x1541 II in my possession. No REAL monitor, unfortunately, just an 15" LCD}. Even if i wasn't and am not using them so oft, it was and is a great feeling having them around.

My first thought was: It's a typewriter! My first {and only} one had exactly one LCD line and it looked pretty much like this HP 9825a and i paid back then 349.00 {Swiss Francs}. Honestly, i never heard of HP9825a, and am looking forward to see in the next episode what it can do {that means i am extra not going to google around } It's interesting how it was made. Like a sandwich. And the big CPU cooler including the air cooling... Well, you might think it's a super CPU capable of doing incredible thing. As far as i have seen, it's blowing the air into the case and not hot air inside the case out of the case {or i just saw it wrong?} Also, I didn't noticed any connectivity, like serial ports, external monitor... Can it be?

Did your unit come with a battery for the RTC module? My 3497A has a lead-acid battery in the area besides the power transformer. The RTC is not a low-power circuit like modern RTC chips so there is a significant draw from the battery and it runs flat if not kept on charge. You need to keep the unit plugged and on standby most of the time to charge the battery but the main power switch doesn't have to be switched on.

Weird how those springs failed. I don't see wear on the buttons so its hard to imagine it was over use.

Came across my C128 from my youth in my storage a few months ago. Now I'm in full swing exploring other 8 & 16-bit computers from back-in-the-day. Picked up a C128D recently. Looking forward to using it!

I made such a mistake selling mine about 15 years ago, along with my Newton 2100.

My Commodore 64 made me popular with my friends! Great video!

Love Commodore stuff cos I was bought up on it. Used the Pet 2001 & 3001, owned a Vic-20 then a C-64 with a disk drive. They never really broke the real business market, but they had a good go and I agree, they led the way in 8 bit tech.

Now the idea is so cool, that it made me make small modification to reflect the 2024 😁 and i somehow managed to do it without adding another line of code. planet system, 23.08.2024 list 1 fast:bank15:graphic1,1:s=10:color1,7:color0,1:w=27440:q=24:z=20:h=100:m=160:sysw:forj=0tohstep30:circle1,q,z,,8,,,j:next:sshapea$,11,s,34,31:sprsava$,7 2 sprsav7,8:sysw:movspr7,m#5:movspr8,h#8:sprite7,1,6:sprite8,1,9:sysw:circle1,q,z,6:paint1,q,z:sshapeb$,11,s,34,31:sysw:l=169:t=142:u=1300:f=8192:color4,1:vol8 3 color1,12:forj=1toh:o=int(rnd(ti)*f)+f:pokeo,1:next:circle1,m,h,12:paint1,m,h:forj=1to6:sprsavb$,j:spritej,1,j+3,0:circle1,m,h,j*q:next:v=3:bz=100:slow 4 do:sound1,w*2,m,0,u*33,u,2,u*2:d=int((rnd(ti)*v)+1)/bz:forj=0to2*3.14stepd:fori=1to6:x=l+(i*q)*cos(j-i*q):y=t+(i*q)*sin(j-i*q):movspri,x,y:next:next:loop {lines can be just copy/pasted in VICE C128 Emulator. I used fast/slow command and deleted part of the code which made no sense with fast/slow. Added therefore some extras, used variables to make the code shorter and be able to put all changes i made. Bottom line: still the same program, 4 lines, just a bit different. Starting under 9 seconds. {Compiled would probably be under 5 seconds} Looking forward to see more C128 content {was my first PC}... Thank you.

Love the graphics!

Hey Robbo! Cool stuff!

My first computer!

Meow!

I have the same computer, been having trouble with nothing showing on the display, already replaced the crt controller and the z80 that was dead, and recapped the tube but nothing.

I have the PC version of the TS 803 that was purchased by the company I worked for in the early 80's. The sole purpose of the machine was to do fire sprinkler hydraulic calculations on and print out submittal calcs on a high speed Okidata dot matrix printer. Found it in a storage loft when the company was relocated about 20 years ago. I was told to toss it, so I tossed it in my shop. It's still going 40 years later. Thanks for the video!

Disassemble... Dead

turn your phone sideways,, then hit record. The intro video of a thin vertical bar is horrible to watch. Otherwise great video. Keep up the content!