17 Mar
2010
17 Mar
'10
11:55 p.m.
It would not suprise me if this hardware has origins or connections going back to
'Graphics, Utah Style' :
Ivan Sutherland
Hank Christansen
MOVIE.BYU (later CQUEL.BYU)
Brigham Young University was a leader in the beginnings of computer graphics.
A web search of the Bosch shows it was about $1M, and used a lot in courtroom trial
animations (Z-axis, Forensic Technologies Inc.)
Thats how I got my start in 3d animation; crashing cars, doing plant explosions, and then
a roller coaster accident...
The stand alone systems kind of went away after Symbolics. Wavefront and Alias ran on
SGI, Sun and Tek.
These too later got buried after Alias bought Wavefront, and ported it to the PC as Maya.
3d is cheap now, however it still takes years to become a talented animator.
Randy
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:02:38 -0600
Subject: Re: Dire Straits Computer Graphics?
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Yup! Wikipedia has a nice little article listing
the computer as a Bosch
FGS-4000.
IIRC, that device was created in Salt Lake City. Bosch later become
Philips Digital Video Systems and I worked there for a few years.
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