[Coco] Ideas for a Graphics Project

[Rob Rosenbrock]

Color Computer Magazine
March 1984

Rob

On Oct 22, 2005, at 8:20 AM, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:


> John,

>

> Thanks very much for scanning this in.  This looks exactly like  

> what I saw those many years ago.

>

> Again, which magazine was this in?

>

> Boisy

>

> On Oct 22, 2005, at 4:25 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:

>

>

>> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 18:18 -0500, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

>>

>>

>>

>>> Yes!  I specifically recall seeing this program being run on a  

>>> CoCo 1

>>> at a friend's house back in the very early 1980s.  It was a wire

>>> frame space shuttle that could be rotated, zoomed in, out etc.

>>>

>>> If you do run across where it is, or better yet the source, please

>>> let me know.  That would be directly applicable to what I need to

>>> present.

>>>

>>>

>>

>> Scanned it in, you can find it at:

>> http://bitchin100.com/3d.pdf

>>

>> Also, I have a book called "Computer Graphics" 1987. Lots of info  

>> about

>> computer graphics theory both 2d and 3d; interesting to you maybe

>> because it is relatively old and because all of the examples are  

>> close

>> to ML, a language you mentioned learning about recently. See if  

>> you can

>> get it from your school library. Also lots of references in there  

>> that

>> you could use for a paper.

>>

>> This was about when computer graphics really started to be used for

>> entire scenes in movies. There's a color photo of Luxo Jr. (Pixar) in

>> this book, and Luxo Jr. is copyright 1986... I actually have a friend

>> who worked on animation for Last Starfighter and that was released in

>> 1984.

>>

>> -- John.

>>

>>

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