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This piece of film, which was created around 1975, shows off the Synthavision process for creating an animated film. It was created by Larry Elin of Computer Visuals, Inc., of Elmsford, New York.

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The new animation technique is called Synthavision and is marketed commercially by Computer Visuals, Inc., of Elmsford, New York. Using the process, dimensional, shaded objects can be made to perform a countless variety of complicated movements and captured on film. Amazingly, the objects don’t have to exist. The need for art work, photographs or prototypes has also been eliminated, since Synthavision enables the animator to produce his ‘actors’ within the software of the computer mathematically

This incredible attribute is an offshoot from the work which inspired the development of Synthavision in the first place. Scientists at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Computer Visuals parent company, were conducting experiments in which whole environments were mathematically described to a computer [Read more…]