“Megacycles” by AT&T Bell Laboratories – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Megacycles” by AT&T Bell Laboratories




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Title:


    Megacycles

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Description:


    Extensions to constructive solid geometry (CS) allowing recursive models. The final scene of this film, showing over 12,000 robot figures, is represented by only a few thousand bytes of data.

Hardware:


    HARDWARE: AT&T Pixel Machine 964

Software:


    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: FX, experimental ray tracer


Additional Contributors:


    Produced by: John Amanatides and Don Mitchell

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