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3 unusual facts about Ken Knowlton


BEFLIX

BEFLIX is the name of the first specialised computer animation language, invented by Ken Knowlton at Bell Labs in 1963.

Stan Vanderbeek

Between 1964 and 1967 Vanderbeek created Poem Field, a series of 8 computer-generated animations with Ken Knowlton.

His desire for the utopian led him to work with Ken Knowlton in a co-operation at Bell Labs, where dozens of computer animated films and holographic experiments were created by the end of the 1960s.



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