“Sunstone” by Emshwiller and Smith
Title:
- Sunstone
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
- Issue 1: SIGGRAPH '79 Film & Video Show (Track #04)
- Issue 100: Fifteen Years of Computer Graphics (Excerpts) 1979-1994 SPECIAL ISSUE (Track #01)
Length:
- 3:00
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Description:
In 1979, Emschwiller and Alvy Ray Smith produced Sunstone, a groundbreaking three-minute 3-D computer-generated video made at the New York Institute of Technology with Alvy Ray Smith. Now in the Museum of Modern Art’s video collection, Sunstone was exhibited at SIGGRAPH 79, the 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival and other festivals. In 1979, it was shown on WNET’s Video/Film Review, and a Sunstone frame was used on the front cover of Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley.
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Additional Contributors:
Computer Animation: Alvy Ray Smith, Lance Williams, Garland Stern
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