BEFLIX is the name of the first embedded domain-specific language for computer animation, invented by Ken Knowlton at Bell Labs in 1963. The name derives...
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and portraitist. In 1963, while working at Bell Labs, he developed the BEFLIX programming language for creating bitmap computer-produced movies. In 1966...
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Knowlton in 1964-1967. The animations were programmed in a language called Beflix (short for "Bell Flicks"), which was developed by Knowlton. It is notable...
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early to mid-1960s. Ken Knowlton invented the computer animation language BEFLIX. The first digital computer art was created in 1962 by Noll. In 1966, orthogonal...
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instance, Stan VanderBeek produced Poemfield through programming using BEFLIX to animate the poem's words and embed a geometric background. In education...
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created on the SC4020 at Bell Labs in the early 1960s using FORTRAN and the BEFLIX subroutine language. A much larger 19-inch diameter Charactron CRT was used...
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have a side facing the Earth as it orbited. Ken Knowlton developed the Beflix (Bell Flicks) animation system in 1963, which was used to produce dozens...
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Ken Knowlton, 91, American computer scientist and artist, inventor of BEFLIX. Peter Mackridge, 76, British Hellenist and historian. Antonio Montero Moreno...
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computer graphics pioneer, artist, mosaicist and portraitist (developed the BEFLIX programming language), dies at age 91. June 23: Michiaki "Chumei" Watanabe...
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post-processing, initially working with Knowlton's 1963 computer graphics language, BEFLIX, his subsequent graphics language EXPLOR and also SYMBOLICS. By 1975, Schwartz...
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related to computer graphics that resulted in the computer animation language BEFLIX, and the Atoms program for creating images of three-dimensional stick-and-ball...
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aspect-orientation and AspectJ Ken Knowlton. computer graphics pioneer, created BEFLIX for making movies and L6, which introduced postfix field selection to list...
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computer graphics pioneer, artist, mosaicist and portraitist (developed the BEFLIX programming language), (d. 2022). June 17: John Baldessari, American conceptual...
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