Historical Overview

• History of Computer Graphics (1999)
• Filmography of Computer Animation - 1960-1980 (1999)

Pioneer Era

• Chuck Csuri
  • Real Time ¯
  • Hummingbird ¯
  • CsuriVision ¯
• John Whitney
  • Arabesque ¯
  • Osaka
  • Matrix
  • Matrix III
  • Permutations
  • Celery Stalks at Midnight
  • Tribute to John Whitney by David Em
• Lillian Schwartz/Ken Knowlton (1972)
  • The Artist and the Computer ¯
  • Enigma ¯
  • Metathesis ¯
  • Apothesis ¯
• Louise/Bill Etra
• Michael Noll
• Robert Mallary
  • A tribute by Copper Giloth
• Ivan Sutherland ¯

Early Innovators

• University of Utah
  • Not Just Reality
  • Halftone Rendering
  • Hands and Faces
  • Vibration simulation
• The Ohio State University
  • Parent Anima II
  • Carlson DG
  • Frank Crow
  • Bob McGhee Gait studies
  • Hal Moellering visualization
  • Charles Osgood poem
  • Van Hook Pong Man
  • DeFanti GRASS and Electronic Visualization Event
  • '87-'90 demo reel
  • Zeltzer Walking George
  • van Baerle/Kingsbury Snoot and Muttly
  • The Shaun Ho museum vase
  • The Dawn of an Epoch (CGRG Demo tape)
  • Amkraut/Girard Eurythmy
  • Chadwick Bragger, Sity Savvy, Zen/Tao
  • Hofer Faceit
  • '97 Demo Reel
• New York Institute of Technology
  • Sunstone
  • The Works
  • Inside a Quark
• Bell Labs
  • The Compleat Angler
  • Ray Tracing
• Nelson Max
  • Carla's Island
  • DNA animations
  • Light Beams (S86)
• Yoichiro Kawaguchi
  • Growth series
• National Film Board/ National Research Council of Canada
  • Hunger
  • Key Frame
  • Metadata
  • NRC Sampler
  • The Music Machine
• Loren Carpenter
  • Vol Libre
• Evans and Sutherland
  • CT5 Flight Simulator
  • The Tactical Edge
• MIT
  • Spatial Data Management System
• JPL (Jim Blinn)
  • Voyager
  • Mechanical Universe
  • Mathematics!
  • Blobby Man

The First Wave of Adapters

• Robert Abel and Associates
  • Early work - the psychedelic look of 7-Up and Levis
  • Classics, such as Sexy Robot from the Brilliance ad
  • Demo Reel
  • High Fidelity
• Digital Effects
  • Work on Tron
  • Interview from PBS Innovations
  • Demo Reel
• III
  • Demo reel
• MAGI
  • Demo reel
• Cornell
  • Cornell in perspective
  • other stuff
• Image West
• Computer Creations
• The Thalmanns
  • Flashback

The Second Wave of Adapters

• CCP
  • Demo reel
  • research work
• PDI
  • Demo reel
  • midnight production work
• Toyo Links
  • BioSensor
• Sogitec
  • demo reel
• Digital Productions
  • Demo reel
• Omnibus
  • Demo reel
  • The takeovers
• TDI
• LucasFilms
• Joblove/Kay
• Fantastic Animation Machine

The Recent Wave (The Followers)

• Pixar
  • Knick Knack
  • Red's Dream
  • Tin Toy
  • Luxo Jr.
  • Toy Story
  • The Making of Toy Story
  • Geri's Game ?
• Metrolight
  • Demo reel
• RezN8
  • Demo reel
  • 97 Winter Olympics
• Rhythm and Hues
  • Demo reel
• Boss Films
• Xaos
• Blue Sky
• Windlight
  • demo reel
  • motion capture
• SFPG
• Disney
• DreamQuest
• Dreamworks
• Sony Imageworks
• ILM
  • Demo reel
  • Making of Jurassic Park
• Digital Domain
  • Making of the Titanic

Industrial Innovation

• Evans and Sutherland
• Diffusion
• Dubner
• Aurora
• Grumman
• Computer Creations
• Apple
• Xerox PARC
• Vertigo
  
• Wavefront
• Alias
• Computervision
• Singer/Link
• IBM
• Bosch
• SGI
• Symbolics
• Post Perfect

University Innovation

• Osaka
• UNC
• Hiroshima
• Penn
• EVL - UIC
• NCSA
• Cal Tech
• Ringling
• Texas A&M

Other Individual Innovation

• Karl Sims
• Larry Cuba
• Jerry Weil
• Pat Hanrahan
• Bo Gehring
• Bill Latham
• Benoit Mandelbrot and his followers

Applications

• Theme Park motion tours
  • Magma Tour
• Scientific Visualization
  • Politics of Pleasure - Meyer
• Mathematics visualization
  • Latham
  • Blinn
  • Inversion of the Sphere - Minnesota
• Architecture
  • Dresden reconstruction - IBM
  • EDO
  • Chicago - Able

Specials

• Dinosaurs
  • Stegosaurus - Roof Lizard (Donkin)
  • Chromosaurus - PDI
  • Haddorosaurus - Rosenfeld
  • Jurrasic Park
• Fractals
  • Sandin
  • Flight Over Mandelbrot - Jurgens (S'90 SR)
  • Serpinski Blows a Gasket - Hart
  • Vol Libre - Carpenter
  • IBM work

   

• Space stuff
  • S.S. Freedom - Intelligent Light
  • Voyager Fly-by - JPL
  • Saturn's Rings - Kleiser
  • Formation of Solar System - SDSC
  • Hubble Telescope - Lockheed