November 2020 – Tony Pritchett eBook

A book from TP’s archives. I’m not sure when or why he owned the book. Perhaps it was a nice break from speaking Fortran.

019 > Some Light Relief

Random Walk

FORTRAN stands for: Flipping Heck,This Is Difficult To Learn. Tony used Fortran V to program The Flexipede. Drawing and animating using Fortran is not an easy task, especially for someone…

“It became clear that with the computer techniques currently available, the tedious and time consuming film method has an overwhelming advantage in respect of cost.” Of course nowadays the opposite is true.

018 > Comedy & Science

Random Walk

When TP got his funding from The Institute of Computer Science in 1967, he could’ve made anything in order to explore the possibility of computer animation. He chose to make…