“Portal” by Ackerman – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Portal” by Ackerman




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    Portal

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Description:


    If DNA is the stuff that souls are made of, then there must be a door through their structure to all eternity and an understanding of a time continuum.

Software:


    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Specially developed by the artist


Additional Contributors:


    Music: Drew Neumann, Eric Rasmussan
    Voice samples of Vivian Miller
    Motion control computer: Geoff Fennell
    Produced at: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California 1984


Additional Information:


    Format: 5:00; 16mm; sound

    Technical notes:
    Special anti-aliasing techniques were developed.
    Animation was achieved through cycles on an
    optical printer. Music was created using PCM
    storage from an eight channel mix of Jupiter-6
    and memory Moog keyboards.

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