http://www.vfxhack.com/2008/04/17/awesome-photo-of-vinatge-mocap/ the real vfx deal Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.vfxhack.com/2008/04/17/awesome-photo-of-vinatge-mocap/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Nyarlathotep Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:03:48 +0000 http://vfxhack.com/2008/04/17/awesome-photo-of-vinatge-mocap/#comment-478 <p>Like I said when I sent it, I first saw it on a TV show on VFX in the early 80's . It was some hot well known/esoteric experimental "jazz" dancer/choreographer (I am not sure it was the woman in the pic) She was assisted into her harness by 2 white lab coated, bespectacled boffins; I thought the "experiments" took place at Caltech, or possibly at WED (Walt Disney Imagineering) and I thought it was the late 50's but maybe it was the 60's. I remember She blew their minds. I also recall the harness being bulkier the umbilical being thicker and the girl being curvier. The same show also had footage of a what I believe is now called DARPA Project where they built an exact miniature model city (Aspen or Denver I think) and Motion-Controlled moves down every street In order to make a recoverable database so you could "learn" a whole city without out ever going there. This was a very early use of MoCo (PDP7 or 8s maybe?) and I believe they show one of the dudes in charge; it is J. Dykstra right before he left to work on StarWars. Of course now we have Google Street view. Somebody needs to find the VFX TV Show from the 80's or the Dancers name</p> Like I said when I sent it, I first saw it on a TV show on VFX in the early 80′s . It was some hot well known/esoteric experimental “jazz” dancer/choreographer (I am not sure it was the woman in the pic) She was assisted into her harness by 2 white lab coated, bespectacled boffins; I thought the “experiments” took place at Caltech, or possibly at WED (Walt Disney Imagineering) and I thought it was the late 50′s but maybe it was the 60′s. I remember She blew their minds. I also recall the harness being bulkier the umbilical being thicker and the girl being curvier. The same show also had footage of a what I believe is now called DARPA Project where they built an exact miniature model city (Aspen or Denver I think) and Motion-Controlled moves down every street In order to make a recoverable database so you could “learn” a whole city without out ever going there. This was a very early use of MoCo (PDP7 or 8s maybe?) and I believe they show one of the dudes in charge; it is J. Dykstra right before he left to work on StarWars. Of course now we have Google Street view. Somebody needs to find the VFX TV Show from the 80′s or the Dancers name

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