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From: falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: the Computer Animation show
Message-ID: <42618@sun.uucp>
Date: 20 Feb 88 04:26:03 GMT
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In article <1185@hp-sdd.HP.COM>, andrea@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Andrea K. Frankel) writes:
> 
> I do remember one piece that stuck in my mind as exceptional on an
> artistic level.  It's called "Act III" and was done to music by Phillip
> Glass.  That was at SIGGRAPH years ago (83 maybe?).  It even made it to
> a New Year's day performance art special on PBS, where they didn't make
> a big point of it being computer animation - it was just a well done
> film.  
> 
> 


This piece was done by John Sanborne (sp?) and Dean Winkler.  It was
commissioned by Phillip Glass.  I went to school with Dean Winkler
and so saw a lot of this video.

If I'm not very much mistaken, it was done on a Quantel video effects
machine and was not computer graphics per se (except in the fact that
the Quantel probably has some microprocessors inside).

I've played with a Quantel, and all those effects in Act III were probably
done in real time.

It was a great video anyway.

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