Computer animation avant la lettre

How to do computer animation when your machine just isn’t fast enough? You create a really slow animation, film the screen and then speed it up, as this video from 1985 demonstrates.

Of course there’s nothing old-fashioned about the technique itself; animation movies like Shrek, Happy Feet, Ice Age etc. are not real-time animations either. It takes a lot of time and computers working at the same time to render each frame in such a movie. And it will stay like this for quite some time into the future, because as computers are becoming faster, the images will become better looking, demanding more processing power.

Basic Poetry

A poem programmed in Basic on a 1979 Apple ][