The Whitney's, very patient men

It's hard to believe how long it took the Whitney's to complete 1 dot, let alone the millions they used in their first computerized films. I can see how they had IT backgrounds and not film originally, It takes a special brain to figure out the complicated process to make a computer do the types of things they did and to see past the functional side to the possibilities of using the computer creatively is pure genius. During class I could not remember the name of the game/craft I had as a kid that reminded me of their films it was the Spirograph! I'm going to order one on e-bay for my kids for Christmas, soooo cool. Art at that time was also similar, remember the nails with the yarn pictures? Anyway, I can really appreciate the work they did and how quickly it advanced, the scene in 2001 Space Odyssey was really impressive for 1968.