The Color of the Sun 1970
Haunted by the same strange yellow entity that took her parents, a girl survives by using her wit and new-found ability to escape through color.
Bell Laboratories
A Computer Technique for the Production of Animated Movies 1964
Produced by programming in the BEFLIX language, run on an IBM 7094 computer, output via a Stromberg Carlson 4020 microfilm printer, describing the author’s BEFLIX language for raster-scan (bitmap) graphic output.
The Compleat Angler 1978
After receiving his Ph.D. from NCSU in 1978, Turner Whitted left for Bell Labs and proceeded to shake the CGI world with an algorithm that could ray-trace a scene in a reasonable amount of time. His film, The Compleat Angler is one of the most mimicked pieces of CGI work ever, as every student that enters the discipline tries to generate a bouncing ray-traced ball sequence.
Simulation of a Two-Gyro Gravity-Gradient Attitude Control System 1963
This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space.
3-D Film 1964
A computer sculpture combining the "...random scattering of lines about specified, but never drawn, trend lines." A 24 second b&w 16mm loop after Richard Lippold's sculpture "Orpheus and Apollo" of 1962. Likely from part of a series on patterns.
A Computer-Generated Ballet 1965
Created at Bell Labs in 1965, this short film likely contains the first computer-generated animation of human figures in motion. The figures move (or 'dance') seemingly at random on a 3D stage.
