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ASAS #1222

Open larsbrinkhoff opened 6 years ago

larsbrinkhoff commented 6 years ago

Computer animation scripting, written in MacLisp by @cwreynolds. Used for TRON, among other things.

larsbrinkhoff commented 6 years ago

Here's a paper with more information:
https://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1982/ASAS82.html

larsbrinkhoff commented 6 years ago

Here's a video from the Architecture Machine Group, at which ASAS was created:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgcfI254xEU

It's not ASAS, but it shows Imlacs used with CAD software.

larsbrinkhoff commented 6 years ago

CC @ianfinder.

larsbrinkhoff commented 6 years ago

From the paper:

ASAS was developed under MagicSixLisp at The Architecture Ma chine Group at MIT and was painlessly transplanted to run under MIT MacLisp at III.

cwreynolds commented 6 years ago

Hi @larsbrinkhoff — yes ASAS was my Masters thesis project Architecture Machine Group, a predecessor of MIT Media Lab. We used it commercially at III (triple-i, Information International Inc., in Culver City, California) then I got it running on Symbolics Lisp Machines when I joined what was informally known as Symbolics Graphics Division (in Chatsworth, then the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, near UCLA). It served as a conceptual inspiration for SGD's S-Dynamics system for animation description. S-Dynamics was primarily used through a GUI, but was easily extended by a user's own Lisp code, as for example the first implementation of the boids model of flocking and other group motion.

larsbrinkhoff commented 5 years ago

Thank you @cwreynolds,

I turned the internet upside down, but sadly I have to concede MagicSix has vanished.