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November 12, 2004
Benoit Mandelbrot
I saw on boingboing that Benoit Mandelbrot, who coined the term fractal geometry, turns eighty next week.
I was lucky enough to be part of the group at R/Greenberg Associates in New York that helped bring one of Mandelbrot's and Dr. Richard Voss's famous fractal terrains to popular attention by animating a fly-through of it in a 1987 IBM television commercial.
The commercial was popular, and went on to win a number of awards, including a Gold Plaque, Computer Graphics, Chicago International Film Festival; a Gold Award, International Film & TV Festival; a Certificate of Merit, Institutional/Corporate ID, Chicago International Film Festival; and a Gold Award, Computer Graphics, Houston International Film Festival.
Happy Birthday Dr. Mandelbrot.
Posted by digital artform at November 12, 2004 09:25 AM
Comments
Awesome stuff!!
I remeber seing those images, and having no clue about how they could be created.
I only enterd the digital world in...1998.
Its with minds like yours that art and technology evolves!Kudos and keep on...
Posted by: evan fotis at October 3, 2005 04:11 AM
Thank you, but I want to emphasize, we didn't invent the images, we made them move. The ideas are Benoit Mandelbrots, and the implementation was Richard Voss's.
Posted by: Joseph Francis at October 3, 2005 09:24 AM