Sunday, September 7, 2008

4D HyperMovie



Words placed in 4D are then rotated and projected perspectively to 3D and then to 2D. The movie was digital computer animated in the mid 1960s at Bell Labs, and the technique was used to animate the title sequence of the CBS TV special "The Unexplained" -- perhaps one the earliest applications of computer animation for title sequences.

"The notion of creating art works through the medium of machines may seem a little strange. Most people who have heard about the experimental use of digital computers in creative endeavors have probably shrugged them off as being of no consequence. On the one hand, creativity has universally been regarded as the personal and somewhat mysterious domain of man; and, on the one hand, as every engineer knows, the computer can only do what it has been programmed to do - which hardly anyone would be generous enough to call creative. Nonetheless, artists have usually been responsive to experimenting with and even adopting certain concepts and devices resulting from new scientific and technological developments. Computers are no exception."

-A. Michael Noll -The Digital Computer as a Creative Medium (1967)

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