SIGGRAPH 1975: 2nd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

1975 

ACM/SIGGRAPH in Bowling Green, Ohio with 300 attendees.

Hunger by Peter Foldes: "First fully animated figurative 
film every made using computer techniques.˛ (Computer 
Interpolation or inbetweening). Like Csuriąs work, some of 
the first geometric interpolation or "Morphing" techniques. 
Foldes would also create the film "Metadata"

The venerable icon of early computer graphics, the famous 
łUtah Teapot˛ is designed by Martin Newell at the University 
of Utah.

The TWEEN animation system is developed by Dr. Edwin Catmull 
at NYIT. Originally written in assembler language (Ed hated 
Fortran), TWEEN was re-written completely in C to run on UNIX 
about a year later (It took up ??megs of memory on a PDP-11). 
He then actually renamed the program łMO-TRUCK˛ for łmotion 
trucking-thru-the-frames˛ but no one would use the new 
nameŠso TWEEN it stayed. 

After 20 years of research Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot publishes 
his seminal paper: "A Theory of Fractal Sets." The study of 
fractal geometry is revealed to the popular press. (The 
theory had been around before, and contributed to by 
noteworthy mathematicians such as Julia, Poincare, and 
Falconer. Mandelbrot gave it a name and codified it.)

John Whitney Jr. and Gary Demos form the Motion Picture 
Project Group at Triple-I.