Information International, Inc.
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Westworld...the point of view of the robotic gunslinger. The first use of 3D CGI in a feature film was Westworld's sequel, Futureworld, in 1976. Information International, Inc., better known as Triple-I, created the digitized shots of The... In this article: Westworld, Yul Brynner, Futureworld, Delos, Michael Crichton, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, and Beyond Westworld |
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Wikipedia | October 17, 2009
Adam Powers, The Juggler
...and released by Triple III. It was one of the earliest CGI animations created and released in the market. The demo was produced from the Information International Inc. (Triple I) The film opens with a juggler juggling a pack of shapes...
In this article: Electronic Arts and Mercedes-Benz
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Larry Cuba
...which parallel the layered continuities of classical gamelan music. Using a programming language called RAP at the Los Angeles firm Information International Inc. (III), Larry was able to systematically explore the classic 17 symmetry...
In this article: Expanded Cinema, American Film Institute, California Institute of the Arts, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Gene Youngblood, and John Whitney, Sr
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Information International, Inc.
Information International, Inc., commonly referred to as Triple-I or III, was an early computer technology company; Founded by Ed Fredkin in 1962 in Cambridge, Ma. Then moved (serially) to Santa Monica, Culver City, and Los Angeles...
In this article: Tron, Foonly, AIDS, Digital Effects, Disney, and 3D Modeling Software
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FILECOMP
...as the Digiset, and marketed by RCA GSD in the late 1960s and early 1970s as the VideoComp. When RCA got out of the computer business, Information International, Inc. or Triple I took over the support of the VideoComp. Filecomp resembled...
In this article: RCA, Fortran, Mumps, and Kiel, Germany
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Seattle Times | June 07, 2009
Hezbollah may win Lebanon vote
Sentiment in several key Christian districts has moved heavily toward Aoun in the past year, said pollster Rabia Habr. A poll conducted by Information International predicted that Hezbollah and Aoun would gain a four-seat edge after the...
In this article: Hezbollah, Lebanon, Michel Aoun, U.S., Ideology, Democracy, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, Middle East Institute, and Free Patriotic Movement
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Digital Effects (studio)
...with a 1200 baud modem connection to a remote Amdahl V6 in Bethesda, Maryland, with rendering done on an IBM System 370, recording on an Information International Inc. (III) film recorder in Los Angeles, and final processing and optical...
In this article: Digital Effects Inc., Judson Rosebush, MTV, New York City, Tektronix, APL, and Scientific American
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David Em
...Center (Xerox PARC) in 1975 with SuperPaint, "the first complete digital paint system". In 1976, he made an articulated digital insect at Information International, Inc. (III) that could jump and fly, the first such 3D character created by...
In this article: David Em, American Film Institute, SuperPaint, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, California Institute of Technology, Apple Computer, and NASA
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LISP 2
...2. Hence the name Lisp 1.5 for the successor to the earliest Lisp. Lisp 2 was a joint project of the System Development Corporation and Information International, Inc., and was intended for IBM's AN/FSQ-32 military computer. Development...
In this article: Lisp, System Development Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, John McCarthy, and IBM
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Flixster | November 19, 2008
From Hobbits To Dinosaurs: 10 Moments In CGI History
...view of the robotic gunslinger make use of rasterized graphics, which were created by Gary Demos and John Whitney Jr. using equipment from Information International, Inc. (often referred to as Triple-i). They claim to have used some pretty...
In this article: PowerAnimator, Terminator 2, Young Sherlock Holmes, Toy Story, Mental Ray, Industrial Light and Magic, Jurassic Park, IRIX, and Maya
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The Hollywood Reporter | August 18, 2008
Digital guru joins Lowry
...technical achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. From the mid-1970s until 1981, Demos was a scientist for Information International, where he contributed to the development of high-speed film scanners and...
In this article: Lowry Digital, Blu-ray Disc, Information International, Singin' in the Rain, Casablanca, and Sunset Boulevard
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Information International, Inc., commonly referred to as Triple-I or III, was an early computer technology company; Founded by Ed Fredkin in 1962 in Cambridge, Ma. Then moved (serially) to Santa Monica, Culver City, and Los Angeles California. Triple-I merged with Autologic, Inc. in 1996. The combined company was purchased by Agfa-Gevaert in 2001.
Triple-I's commercially successful technology was centered around very high precision CRTs, capable of either scanning or recording film; which for a while were the publishing industry's gold standard for digital-to-film applications. However, Triple-I is most notable for it's commercially unsuccessful ventures; a number of one-or-two of a kind systems which included CRT based computer displays used at the Stanford AI Lab, an OCR system based on PDP-10's (two were sold), and The Super Foonly F-1 - which was used for movie special effects.
Triple-I's work in computer animation done by the Motion Pictures Product Group, is probably most notable first from Triple-i, at least if measured by the eventual success of the technology. They created some of the first computer-generated special effects for major motion pictures, and employed a number of computer graphics pioneers.
Circa 1976, prior to becoming an artist-in-residence at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, pioneering computer artist David Em spent nights at Triple-I for eighteen months, learning to use their systems and create his first 3D, shaded, digital imagery.
In 1982, the management of Triple-I decided to shut down the Motion Pictures Product Group.
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