BBC Horizon Programme on Computer Graphics from 21 December, 1981

I would've loved to have seen this when it was broadcast. I missed it.


See the book Jim Blinn's Corner and https://www.jimblinn.com/. 

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ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 History of the JPL Computer Graphics Lab


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He has an interesting video in his Dropbox called How to Make a Planet. See the texture maps and other links on https://www.jimblinn.com/magrathea.

1981NASA Animation of Voyager 2 Flyby of Saturn


1986 NASA Animation of Voyager 2 Flyby of Uranus


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