Hi everyone,
Years ago I came across a video on YouTube (most likely) that was about old (70s/80s?) CGI technology.
IIRC it was basically a very fancy oscilloscope, took up a whole room and was used mainly to produce 3D titles.
I think it was operated using a bunch of knobs.
My apologies for the limited amount of details, like I said it's been years...
I hope you can help me scratch that itch, I've been trying to find it every now and then but no luck :(
Thanks for reading and for the potential help!
Edit: corrected 60s to 80s
4 Comments
graham1@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 223d
You could be describing a rotoscope or a modified version of one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 223d
It was really more some kind of oscilloscope that needed to be programmed then it played the whole animation.
I have never heard of that before or after seeing that video and I think it's a bit of an obscure technology.
deathmetal27@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 222d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanimate
See it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxc3mKqKTk
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 222d
Yes! Thank you!!!