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Subject: Re: state of the business
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Date: 31 Aug 89 18:28:15 GMT
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In article <541@celia.UUCP> celia!charlie@tis.llnl.gov (Charlie Gibson) writes:
>Why is it, thought, that people are hung up on the "realism" aspect
>of computer animation?  We have a tool available that can create 
>imagery that is totally SURreal -- there just aren't any scripts
>being written out there that consider the potential of the medium. (yet).
>-- 
>Charlie Gibson -- Rhythm & Hues, Inc.

I heartily agree!  Not so much for the use of abstract surrealistic computer
graphics in movies, but as an artistic form of expression in itself.

My personal interest runs more to computer music than graphics, but I am 
currently trying to perfect my own raytracer and (when I get time) a scan-line
rendering program.  I plan to use my own graphics to enhance various computer
music I've already written...and my music tends to get VERY surreal, so 
*realistic* imagery would be a let-down.

Since my mind is very far from being organized and mathematical, and I'm doing
all my work on a single Sun workstation (monochrome--I have to send the 
image files to a MacII to see them in 8-bit color.  sigh, you just can't 
convince the Music dept. purse-strings that you need an Iris), I don't expect
anything like animation until around Christmas (so here comes the kicker...)

If anyone is already producing **abstract** artsy computer animation (or
even stills) and would like to have their creations put to original music,
I'd love to get in touch!!  I'd like to meet lots more people interested 
in the artistic applications of computers.

BLOBBY PEOPLE!

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