From a friend of mine from Project DELTA. Watching
Ralph do his thing
with the Tektronix terminal is what kept me interested in
programming
and made me want to study computer graphics.
Hi Guys,
I finally got around to having some old Super-8 movies converted to
QuickTime, and then posted them to YouTube. These show some
wireframe computer graphics I developed in high school thanks to
project Delta. A bit crude but bear in mind that it's 1979
and I didn't refer to any literature and wrote it all in Basic+2
spaghetti
code ;-)
Graphics shot directly from Tektronix display (stop-motion used
to get animation effect) using high-speed B&W film. Note many
of the scenes are stereoscopic: if you have a viewer
you'll see the stereoscopic image or if you cross your eyes you
will see the image with reverse perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4Yo_a34XM
Music video for Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine". This is
primarily pastel on paper, but there is a portion in the middle
using printouts from the Tektronix display which I colorized by
holding a match under the paper. There's also a shot of a
Beehive (?) terminal at the end running a rasterized Game
of Life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAfK1rL9fCw
-Ralph
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Ralph Gonzalez
ralphgonz at
gmail.com
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