If embedded Sketchpad video didn't cue properly in previous post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKM3CmRqK2o go to 7:50 for the
flowcharting bit.
-Amy
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Amy Alexander <amy_at_plagiarist.org> wrote:
> Yeah, AFAIK nobody projected the RT/1 code; it was on a separate monitor
> that generally wasn't hooked up for video output. So they would have had to
> put a camera on the screen and mix it through the switcher, as they did in
> the documentation video. I think they just did it that way in the video to
> show what they were doing.
>
> Anyway, here's some not-quite-live coding from Bell Labs EAT in the 60's..
> just cause any discussion of early coding of motion graphics should by law
> include them! Oh yeah, also because they're very cool to watch.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lmi6cmrq0w
> Around 8:00 for the coding action
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crbfSY6vf7s
> Around 3:45 for the motion graphics (I think the animator is Stan
> Vanderbeek), but really, the whole film is worth watching.. lots of early
> computer music, speech synth including a computer singing Daisy Bell _at_
> 10:00 (may or may not be the one HAL was based on..)
>
> The language used for the first one is Ken Knowlton's BEFLIX, and I
> believe for the segment at 3:45 in the second film too.
>
> Then of course there's Ivan Sutherland's sketchpad, not quite livecoding,
> but here's an interesting bit of
> Flowcharting = coding
> http://youtu.be/BKM3CmRqK2o?t=7m50s
>
> #!,
> -Amy
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Nick Collins <clicksonnil_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> very cool precedent. Good to see some critical rewriting of history going
>> on still.
>>
>> for 1976 (from the paper), super prescient:
>> "performance graphics, especially the jamming variety, requires constant
>> real-time debugging with two hundred people looking over your shoulder,"
>>
>> the video doesn't show projected code as centre stage, just their chosen
>> control method on the side for interactive programming, but still very
>> impressive.
>>
>> best
>> Nick
>>
>> On 2 Dec 2014, at 23:28, Amy Alexander <amy_at_plagiarist.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I remember RT/1! Larry Cuba got me started with it around 1994, though
>> it
>> > was a senior citizen language by then - the GRASS languages had been
>> around
>> > for quite awhile, and RT/1 was the last GRASS. I think I made too many
>> > fatal errors to consider it live coding though. :-) But it was exciting
>> to
>> > program animation on a PC!
>> >
>> > Nostalgia!
>> >
>> > -Amy
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:17 PM, alex <alex_at_slab.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Wow, this is new to me! This is as impressive as it is laid back. Love
>> >> the integration with the 'tablet'.. Really nice stuff. Nice to see
>> >> this early live coding was for graphics and not music, and that people
>> >> were pondering on performances without audiences back then.
>> >>
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