2003-08-03

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Kraftwerk's CGI

In 1972 (14 years before Electric Cafe was released) two men, Fred Parke and Ed Catmull, at the university of Utah were working on the very first three-dimensional computer animations. Ed Catmull claims that this was never done before, so he wrote a paper on these experiments. It started with "a computer animated hand" followed by "computer generated faces" and "smooth shaded face animated using cosine interpolation". These animations were shot in black and white. They show astounding similarities with the faces on the sleeve of Electric Cafe and the clip of Musique Non Stop.