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Mathematical Films of Manfred Mohr

Just stumbled across this collection of digital math and geometry films created by pioneering digital artist Manfred Mohr in the early 1970’s. This stuff puts most modern GIF artists to shame, and he made them in Fortran IV on a CDC 6400, which is considerably less powerful than Photoshop. They had to then be captured by a microfilm printer in order to be converted to 16 mm film!

Super cool look back at early digital art, though. Get inspired!  Here’s another, “Cube Transformation Study”: