Daniel J. Sandin: On the North Pole Looking East

Artist(s):

• Daniel J. Sandin

Collaborators:

• John Hart
• Louis Kauffman
• Laurie Spiegel
• Tom DeFanti

Title:

On the North Pole Looking East

Exhibition:

• SIGGRAPH 1998: Touchware

Creation Year:

1990

Medium:

Inkjet print

Size:

24" x 36"

Category:

• 2D & Wall-Hung

Keywords:

• computer graphics
• ink jet print

Artist Statement:

A frame from the stereo animation A Volume of 2-Dimensional Julia Sets

This animation (like most computer animations) took up to 30 minutes per frame to render, 54,000 times slower than real time. In the early 1980s (with the exception of space roaches in video games), computer graphics stopped moving in real time. Frame buffers gave us photographic realism, but computers could not move enough bits fast enough to animate in real time.

Other Information:

Algorithm Development  John Hart
Mathematics  Louis Kauffman
Computer Graphics  Daniel Sandin
Sound  Laurie Spiegel
Fused Vision  Tom Defanti