Bafflingly Advanced Animation Made on Apple IIe

By Pete Mortensen (8:25 pm, Jun. 18, 2007)

Most of the time, we like to believe our computers have significantly advanced over the last 20 years. But some things remind us little has changed.

Take the video above. Created by James Leathem on an Apple IIe, it creates 3-D renders too complex for the actual machine. Since the computer couldn’t play the animation itself, Leathem shot each frame individually and pieced them together as a continuous stop-motion animation.

Simply incredible.

Via Boing Boing

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2 comments

    “…But some things remind us little has changed…”

    Uh, my mobile phone can do this live without even getting warm, in millions of colours and at ten times the resolution too.

    I still like the idea of John Conway iterating hundreds of generations of The Game Of Life on graph paper, before computer graphic displays were available. Now THAT is simply incredible. Very veeerrrrry sssslllloooooow complexity from simplicity.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway‘s_Game_of_Life

    Chris, on June 19th, 2007 at 1:56 am

    [...] el santo Job, ya que cada imagen tarda en generarse alrededor de 2 minutos en el Apple II. Vía | Cult of Mac Más información | Vídeo en [...]

    Animación creada en un Apple IIe, on June 19th, 2007 at 8:36 am