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The Development of Computer Animation in Various Organizations

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During the period 1963–1967, a dozen computer films were made at Bell Telephone Laboratories Apart from Ken Knowlton [1964, 1965], the most important computer animators at Bell Labs were:

  • E. Zajac [1966], who made the first computer-animated film Two-gyro gravity-gradient attitude control system in 1963.

  • F. Sinden [1967], who made Force, Mass and Motion, a film that demonstrates Newton’s laws of motion; the programming language was FORTRAN.

  • Huggins and Weiner, who made Harmonic Phasors, a film concerning the composition of complicated penodic waveforms; the film was produced by programming in PMACRO [Alexander and Huggins, 1967].

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Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (1985). The Development of Computer Animation in Various Organizations. In: Computer Animation. Computer Science Workbench. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68433-6_4

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