40 year old 3D graphics from Pixar founder

Posted on Thursday, September 08 2011 @ 5:00 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

In 1972 Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar) and his colleagues created the world's first 3D rendered movie, an animated version of Ed's left hand. Below is the video they produced.

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