Old 3D graphics

Some early 3D graphics I did with Fredrik Fatemi. The first two clips are on an EGA monitor around 1989. The second two are on an SGI Iris around 1990. These were shot on Super-8 film, transferred to VHS, then to DVD.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• graphics
• mandelbrot
• raytracing

[RABBIDGamfan]

Super-8 celluloid film seems like an odd medium to film this on.

[lkesteloot]

@RABBIDGamfan You're right, but I had nothing else to convert a series of images to a movie.

[espejismooo]

in minute 0.03, is like a subliminal message, is like a skirt. wtf

[lkesteloot]

You're right! I've never seen that. It looks like burned film. Maybe it burned once in the projector?

[PremierSullivan]

This is actually pretty impressive for the 80s. Was it realtime or prerendered?

[lkesteloot]

Pre-rendered. The polygonal frames took a few seconds per frame. The fractal and ray-traced frames took about 30 minutes per frame.

[Rakrent]

@espejismooo Looks like a burnt out frame (from a projector lamp) to me. Haven't seen one of those in years.

[thedarkdragon735]

@espejismooo yeah, 8mm film burns all the time

[idividedbyzer0]

@DollarTaco Gotta love the Mandelbrot set. xD

[DollarTaco]

I'm not sure why there was random footage of a fractal there.

[RICKROLLBLENDER]

AWESOME!!!

especially for the time! =D

[killerhobo97]

@lkesteloot looks like a fish to me

[julienmauricemort]

i use to have an old 1999 computer with windows 98 and it had almost good graphics for modern games lol

[philiptwood]

I bet it took weeks on end to render that.