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TCM Summer Report 1985 Coanputer Anianation in the Museuan by Oliver Strimpel Film and video animated by computer oscillations of a communications satel­ films were also made. The system was are an important record of hardware lite in the Earth's gravitational field was later developed into a package called and software development. The need to completed in 1963, making it the earliest ANTICS which continues to be used to­ produce large numbers of images and to computer generated film known to the day; particularly in Japan. animate them smoothly absorbs a large Museum. Several of the films are educa­ Also in the collection is a record of amount of computer time and fully ex­ tionaL visually explaining subjects the first real time animation, a simu­ ploits all the available spatial and color such as Bell Labs' own movie-making lated flight of the Apollo LEM. This was resolution of computer graphic systems. system, programming languages, and filmed from the screen of an Adage Makers of film and video have consis­ Newton's laws of motion and gravita­ Graphics Terminal in 1967. tently stretched their resources to the tion. Others explore human visual per­ The Museum has created a mini­ limit. ception using images with random theater in "The Computer and the Im­ The Museum is building up a collec­ noise, and still others use the medium age" gallery to screen some of the more tion of computer-animated film and for its aesthetic possibilities. recent pieces in the computer animation video. An important recent acquisition is Another significant set of computer­ collection for the public. Five pieces a set 12 films donated by Ken Knowlton animated films were donated by F R A spanning the development of the art made at AT&T Bell Laboratories be­ Hopgood. He led a group who used the were selected for a 20 minute pro­ tween 1963 and 1976. The computer (an Atlas computer at the Rutherford Labo­ gram which shows continuously. Each IBM 7094) was used both to draft the ratory in England to develop a conve­ piece demonstrates creative and origi­ images on a microfilm recorder (a Strom­ nient high-level computer animation nal use of the techniques of computer berg-Carlson 4020), as well as to calcu­ system from 1968 to 1973. The Museum's animation. late what should be drawn. A short films explain concepts in computing and piece by Ed Zajac that simulates the physics, but non-technical entertaining Computer key frame inbetweening is the process whereby the artist only draws the frames that represent the end of a movement or the completion of a metamorphosis. The computer automat­ ically computes and draws the interme­ diate frames. Here, the artist drew the first and last pictures of the series using a tablet connected to a computer, and the machine generated the frames in between. When seen as moving film, the metamorphosis appears continuous. 4 The Computer Museum Report Summer 1985 Hunger (1975) termed fractals by their discoverer, Carla's Island (1980) by Peter Foldes Benoit Mandelbrot. Many natural by Nelson Max, National Research Council. Ottawa, phenomena, such as clouds, rivers, Lawrence Livermore Canada and National Film Board coastlines, turbulent flow; and capillary National Laboratory of Canada networks can be modelled as fractals. Vol Libre is the first film that used frac­ Nelson Max made the first attempt to Hunger is the first film to use the com­ tals to simulate a landscape. It also model the appearance of moving water puter to animate hand-drawn images. It showed that such an artificial land­ for the film Carla's Island. A range of shows a man with an insatiable appetite scape could be viewed from several simulated lighting is shown on the wa­ devouring a huge quantity of food. He is angles and still appear self-consistent. ter surface, from broad daylight to then tormented by nightmares in which This is not obvious, as the landscape moonlight. hordes of starving people devour his surface is not a real entity. and only the Ray-tracing, modified by some own body. The freedom offered by com­ visible portion in the 'camera' is cal­ time-saving short cuts, was used to ren­ puter animation is used to its fullest culated for each frame. der the play of light on the rippling extent to convey the film's disturbing The film received a standing ova­ water surface. During the sunset and message. For example, as he eats, the tion when it was first shown at the ACM rising and setting of the moon, a single man's body steadily becomes more in­ SIGGRAPH conference in 1980. Despite cycle of water wave motion was re­ flated and numerous mouths appear to images that are crude in comparison to peated many times, but the colors were help him eat faster. His visions are today's, the film is true to its name, changed by altering the color table. This graphically portrayed, as in the woman conveying an exhilating sense of libera­ meant that there was no need to recalcu­ metamorphosing into an ice cream tion from the shackles of gravity and late all the reflections. The results cone. inertia. worked out for one set of colors were The technique used is known as "key frame inbetweening." In traditional animation, the animator draws key frames while assistants laboriously draw intervening frames to make mo­ tion appear smooth. But in this film, the 'tweens' were drawn by computer. The machine works out the intermediate frames by taking averages of the initial key frame and the final one. In Hunger the interpolation is linear, which means that the motion starts off jerkily and progresses smoothly till the end-point is reached. Naturally, animators wish to control motion. Contemporary 'tweening systems now allow many types of move­ ment to be simulated. The most common requirement is to start off slowly. ac­ celerating gradually, and then slow down to a stop. Real living characters generally follow this type of motion. Vol Libre (1980) by Loren Carpenter In Hunger, all the key frames are line drawings created by the artist. The com­ puter smooths the passage between these frames. In Vol Libre, the computer is used to generate all the images­ View of mountains in a fractal land­ edges with the new midpoint to make indeed the images are so complex that scape. To create the landscape, Loren three new; smaller triangles. The pro­ they could not be drawn by hand. The Carpenter started off by entering 180 cess was repeated until the triangles film shows a flight through an imagi­ altitude points. These points were con­ were only a couple of pixels across. The nary landscape of mountains, valleys nected, giving an initial database of 300 splitting was carried out afresh for each and lakes. As the landscape is syn­ triangles to represent the landscape. viewpoint. thetic, the viewpoint can be moved The computer then used a random pro­ freely, simulating truly free flight. cess to assign a midpoint for each The landscapes were simulated us­ triangle, either above or below the ing a class of mathematical objects plane of the triangle, and connected the The Computer Museum Report Summer 1985 5 reused for a different set. chosen to shift Snoot and Muttly (1984) puter then interpolated between these towards the colors of sunset and then by Susan Van Baerle and positions. moonlight. The effect is convincing. and Douglas Kingsbury; The heads. feet. eyes and beaks are only required a very small amount of Ohio State University animated by normal key frame anima­ extra computer time for a considerable tion. following a smooth rotation without extension in the length of film. changing shape between the key posi­ Snoot and Muttly are two bird-like crea­ tions. Finally. the bubbles were placed tures who play together in a rainbow randomly on a grid and were then colored world under trees and floating moved both systematically to simulate a bubbles. Three types of animation are wind or natural buoyancy. as well ran­ used. The tails. necks and legs of the domly between themselves. The com­ animals not only move but change puter smoothed the movement between shape as they walk. Taking the legs. for the grid points. example. the animator input the posi­ Snoot. Muttly; the bubbles and the tions of the hip. knee and ankle for five trees are rendered with a smooth­ key positions during a step. The com- shading model simulating sunlight. The water surface is modelled by a col­ lection of travelling sine waves. To cal­ culate the lighting. a simplification of a rendering technique known as ray-trac­ ing is used. In ray tracing. the computer follows individual light rays backwards from the viewpoint. reflecting or refract­ ing them off objects in the artificial scene until they hit a light source. matte surface or fade. The destination of the ray is used to work out the rays con­ Snoot and Muttly are constructed using tribution to the image. As a ray has to simple shapes: the bodies are ellipsoids. be followed for each pixel of the image. the necks. tails and legs are tubes. and ray tracing is very demanding of com­ the head and eyes are spheres. Despite puter time. As a short cut. the rays in this crudeness. the creatures are con­ Carla's Island are only followed for a vincing and full of character owing to maximum of 2 reflections on the water. their movement. Successive key frames and then assumed to originate from are shown in these pictures. whatever they point to. It still took a Cray-l supercomputer 7 seconds to compute each 512 by 384 frame.
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