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.
Maybe I'm kinda k*lling the joke here, but, taken from Wikipedia: "The Assembly demoparty is an annual demoscene and gaming event in Finland." It was first held in 1992, and it's _still_ legendary... But the sentiment holds up: even before that, the demo coders were pushing the limits of what could be wrung out of the technical limitations of the hardware of their current era, at times to within a hair of the breaking point 😁, and this _would_ have been well worthy of the '68 edition 😄👍...
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.
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.
@@ClassicMicrocomputers I assume it's a ton of clips been made into a video. The way some hand selected scenes were done looks exactly as I used to do as a kid. I miss the days where i could spend weeks playing with random code and the variables that go into it.
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.
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
This is the spiritual forefather of the demoscene.
Absolutely!!
I was thinking the same thing, especially after watching the Budbrain Megademo on my Amiga 500 last night.
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.
Awesome! Do you still have your TRS-80 program listing?
this is the first (and only) entry to Assembly '68. incredible.
Oh wow, cool info!
Maybe I'm kinda k*lling the joke here, but, taken from Wikipedia: "The Assembly demoparty is an annual demoscene and gaming event in Finland." It was first held in 1992, and it's _still_ legendary... But the sentiment holds up: even before that, the demo coders were pushing the limits of what could be wrung out of the technical limitations of the hardware of their current era, at times to within a hair of the breaking point 😁, and this _would_ have been well worthy of the '68 edition 😄👍...
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.
Awesome!
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.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Think this is my fave video of yours so far! Great and interesting find.
Yay! Thank you!
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.
oh wow, that's cool!
yeah more bridge or railroad or tunnel will be amazing sir
Wow, mindblowing for the 1960s
Well into the 1970s quite a lot of computer animation was done that way: using multiple exposures onto film rather than a framebuffer.
Interesting stuff. I use to design video cards so I love exploring the history of graphics technology and it's usage.
That was pretty cool. He even tried for a bit a audio syncing
I noticed that too!
It sounds polyrhythmic.
@@ClassicMicrocomputers I assume it's a ton of clips been made into a video. The way some hand selected scenes were done looks exactly as I used to do as a kid.
I miss the days where i could spend weeks playing with random code and the variables that go into it.
I also assume the partial audio sync was done through trial and error too. Otherwise it would be more consistent from start to finish.
@@1st_ProCactus Yep, then with a color filter applied over top.
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.
It's cool to think that even back then they were thinking of computers as an art platform.
Im very curious how long each frame took to render. In guessing several seconds based on the number of apparent trig operations on display
Yeah, I wonder how long the whole process took.
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.
OG's of the demo scene
Very cool! Truly an interesting piece of both computing history and art history. I'm assuming that's a vector-based display?
Yes. I believe they used the IBM 2250 graphics display
That was mystical and very impressive and to think it was done on a computer in 1968 and filmed like a movie hah.
Somehow you can feel that this was just rooms away from the famous LSD research at UCLA of that time 😂
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Wow, that’s a demo worth an Adobe keygen !
LOL, Love it!
I'm sure older viewers of the time just dismissed it as an "electronic kaleidoscope"
LOL, they might have.
What kind of Terminal was used for Graphics on the s/360? as TN3270 to my knowledge cannot do graphics only text
I believe it was an IBM 2250 graphics display terminal - it had vector drawing capabilities.
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.
It was fun to tie that all together. That music really hit it off for me. LOL.
It is cool af.
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
Very neat!
That must have been some badass computer for it's time to be able to do this. And a decent programmer.
supersize IBM S/360 that filled a room!
AMIGAAAA!!!!111111
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we need an HD scan, if you can't do it right, let us wait until someone can