Bell Laboratories

Haunted by the same strange yellow entity that took her parents, a girl survives by using her wit and new-found ability to escape through color.

After receiving his Ph.D. from NCSU in 1978, Turner Whitted left for Bell Labs and proceeded to shake the CGI world with an algorithm that could ray-trace a scene in a reasonable amount of time. His film, The Compleat Angler is one of the most mimicked pieces of CGI work ever, as every student that enters the discipline tries to generate a bouncing ray-traced ball sequence.

This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space.

A computer sculpture combining the "...random scattering of lines about specified, but never drawn, trend lines." A 24 second b&w 16mm loop after Richard Lippold's sculpture "Orpheus and Apollo" of 1962. Likely from part of a series on patterns.

Created at Bell Labs in 1965, this short film likely contains the first computer-generated animation of human figures in motion. The figures move (or 'dance') seemingly at random on a 3D stage.