GENESYS : Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation Demo (1/2)

The Genesys system, developed by Dr. Ron Baecker in MIT's Lincoln Laboratory from 1967-69, was one of the world's first interactive systems for real-time animation. The system involves the process of "interactive computer-mediated animation", in which dynamic displays are constructed by utilizing direct console commands, algorithms, free-hand sketches, and real-time actions. The resulting "movie" can then be immediately viewed and altered. Genesys utilizes a special kind of interactive computer-mediated animation that exploits the potentialities of direct graphical interaction. The animator may sketch and refine (1) static images to be used as components of individual frames of the movie, and (2) static and dynamic images that represent dynamic behaviour; that is, movement and rhythm. Because these latter pictures drive algorithms to generate dynamic displays, the process is called "picture-driven animation".

(1/2) http://youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYslfBpC10
(2/2) http://youtube.com/watch?v=wOth0-4EHsc

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• GENESYS
• Ron
• Baecker
• MIT
• first
• real-time
• animation
• system
• GUI
• 1969
• TX-2
• 60s

[rafciominator]

haha this is easier than Flash!

[superspit]

i love this girls reactions to her own works...espesh towards the end!

[zs645]

yeaaa this tutorial is fot AETUTS jajajja

[lasercult]

I CAN SEE FOREVER.

[bbankrablo]

Nice animation! (i mean really) :O

[buzinaocara]

I would actually like to have one of those

[RD199912345]

my god that sucks

[kinmanyuen]

wow... its almost a desktop enviroment... and the pointer is almost like a mouse lol

[interest547]

Development cost in present value??

[SouthwesternEagle]

That's so cool!!

I

Want

One!

[KermitTheFag]

Flash in the 60s

[kstarpictures]

Sadly, yes, and this is 40 year old technology!