GENESYS(ID:5258/gen010)

Animation language at Lincoln 

Animation language

R. M. Baecker, Lincoln Labs MIT 1969
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  • Baecker, R. M. "Picture driven animation", pp273-288 view details
          in [AFIPS] Proceedings of the 1969 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 34 view details
  • Baecker, R. M. Interactive computer-mediated animation. Ph.D. Diss., Dep. of Electrical Engineering, M[T, Cambridge, Mass. (Mar. 1969). view details
          in [AFIPS] Proceedings of the 1969 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 34 view details
  • Baecker, Ronald M. "Interactive Computer Mediated-Animation", MIT Project MAC-TR-61, 1969. view details Extract: Failings of Genesys
    We have seen that there are advantages and disadvantages to each of several approaches to the definition of dynamic pictures--the construction of individual frames, the algorithmic generation of sequences of frames, and picture-driven animation. This suggests that a flexible animation system would allow the harmonious blending of all these techniques. Here GENESYS fails a priori, for it makes inaccessible the full computational power of the computer.
    Within the language of GENESYS one cannot implement algorithms by writing programs. We have also seen that GENESYS is inadequate because it presents the animator with a fixed set of commands and tools, with fixed mechanisms of control, and with fixed models of pictures and of processes of picture construction. A suitably
    skilled animator may himself determine these aspects of his animation system, his animation-machine, only if the system is not a fixed set of commands but an extensible, truly open-ended programming language.
          in [AFIPS] Proceedings of the 1969 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 34 view details
  • Baecker, Ronald M. "Current Issues in Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation", Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Users of Automatic Information Display Equipment, October 1970, 273-288. view details
          in [AFIPS] Proceedings of the 1969 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 34 view details
  • Baecker, Ronald M.; Smith, Lynn D. and Martin, Eric "GENESYS: An Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation System", 17 minute color sound film, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington Massachusetts, 1970. view details
          in [AFIPS] Proceedings of the 1969 Spring Joint Computer Conference SJCC 34 view details
  • Baecker, Ronald M. "GENESYS--Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation", pp97-115. view details
          in John Halas (ed), Computer Animation, Hastings House, New York, 1974. view details
  • Baecker, Ronald M. "A conversational extensible system for the animation of shaded images" view details
          in Baecker, Ronald M. "Interactive Computer Mediated-Animation", MIT Project MAC-TR-61, 1969. view details
  • Baecker, Ronald M.; Guerin, Marjorie and Michael D. Tilson, "An Algorithmic Computer Animation Facility for Research and Educational Filmmaking", 1976 view details
          in Baecker, Ronald M. "Interactive Computer Mediated-Animation", MIT Project MAC-TR-61, 1969. view details
  • by Daniel R. Rehak, and Leonard A. Lopez "Translating Problem-Oriented Languages" pp33-42 view details Abstract: Abstract: The problem of establishing an effective communication medium between a program and its users is often overlooked by software engineers. This is unfortunate, since the input system is one of only three aspects of a computer program that are directly experienced by its users. Problem oriented languages (POL?S) have been shown to be more effective than some of the other communication mechanisms available today. Unfortunately, POL?s have become somewhat synonymous with big systems such as ICES and have not been employed as frequently as they should be. This paper presents the ideas behind POL translation and the concepts behind using a simple programming tool called SCAN. Software engineers can use SCAN to easily create POL?s without resorting to the use of large systems such as ICES, POLO, and GENESYS.

          in Journal of the Technical Councils of ASCE, Vol. 105, No. 1, April 1979 view details