[Coco] Ideas for a Graphics Project

[Boisy G. Pitre]

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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Boisy G. Pitre
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