Computer graphics and visual effects are not as new as people think they are. Special effects in cinema appeared almost simultaneously with the advent of cinema, and while our minds desperately refuses to realize how deep the rabbit hole is, Georges Melies alone laughs loudly somewhere. Obviously, with the advent of computing, expanding the arsenal of artists was only a matter of time. Nevertheless, computer graphics had to go a long way, some of the stages of which it would be interesting to walk through.
Arrival of the kitty
Sweet corn, the Cuban missile crisis, the sexual revolution, the Berlin Wall, the Second Vatican Cathedral and, of course, the conquest of space - the sixties of the last century turned out to be rich in events. Against the background of this riot, mathematicians with burning eyes went unnoticed, who were conducting the first experiments with computer graphics somewhere in the bowels of university computer rooms. One of them was Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov. To create the cartoon he was inspired by the work of a former student - animation of the movement of a DNA molecule from plasticine, and after a few months of work in 1968, "Kitty" modestly walked across the screen.
"Kitty" was not the first computer cartoon, but it was the first realistically animated character using a computer.
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