028 > Random Walk
Blog post coming soon. For now I would like to share a paper with you that I am very proud to have played a tiny part in creating (mostly as…
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
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
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…
Tony Pritchett at the ICA's Cybernetic Serendipity retrospective, 2014.
017 > TRUE or FALSE
> Tony Pritchett created the first computer-animated character in the world.A bold statement, but I believe it to be true.I'm not a computer art, film or animation historian, but in…