Remember the Juggler demo? Back in 1986, the Amiga computer made it possible to produce a raytraced CG animation in thousands of colors (its venerable HAM, 4096 color mode). The demo was made by Eric Graham, who later released Sculpt 3D, Animate 3D and Sculpt Animate 4D for the Amiga computer. Check out Ernie Wright’s site for more on the first steps of CG on personal computers, including images from Eric Graham’s Sculpt 3D (Byte by Byte), Mike Halvorson’s Turbosilver (Impulse), Allen Hasting’s VideoScape 3D (Aegis), and the first versions of LightWave (Newtek). There’s even a recent letter from Mr. Graham on the making of the Juggler demo.
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