Quest: A Long Ray's Journey Into Light (1986) Apollo Computer 24fps IVTC 

This animation mesmerized me as a kid. I also later owned an Apollo DN460 as a unix-obsessed teen! That crazy huge "SPAD" math processor board on that thing yet still this animation took forever to render. Would be fascinating to see the code that went into this and possibly run it on modern hardware, re-rendering these frames at 4K would probably just take seconds if not realtime. from paper titled Distributed Computation for Computer Animation by John W. Peterson, Computer Science Deptartment of University of Utah: Apollo Computer's lm Quest-ALong Ray's Journey Into Light was computed on a few hundred workstations at Apollo. Although the machines were connected with a local area network, in the rush to complete the lm little software was written for coordinating the computation. Instead, a person (given the screen credit `Node Hunter and Gigabyte Master') typed the necessary commands into individual nodes. Since that pro ject, more advanced software has been developed for starting the computations [1].2

2:09 sampled in Death Grips' Known for It

Man, 80s cgi is so hypnotic.

Why has nobody used this for a vaporwave sample, but Death Grips used it?

me at 0:00 through 2:09: woah that’s really good cgi for the time me at 2:10: I PAY DA PRICE TO ROLL WIT IT me at 2:11: woah this is still really good cgi for the time

They just don’t make CGI like this anymore. These 80’s CGI films were so incredibly surreal and experimental in nature, something you just don’t see in modern CGI, where the focus is often to make things as photorealistic as possible.

I like to imagine that this world still exists on some old, forgotten hard drive just waiting for decades to be powered on again.

This is one of the best 3D shorts I have ever watched.

I have been looking for this video for a long time. Thank you for posting it - only just now found it, because I couldn't remember the title or the name of the group that created it. Another in a line of videos produced by Apollo and several other big houses (MAGI, etc.) at the time to prove that computer animation was a viable art form. I kinda miss those days when this sort of thing was new, exciting, and mesmerizing. Today, we take it all for granted.

This would make an interesting map to import into a video game. Like super mario 64.

Here you go: 2:09 3:10

The Apollo Conniption Christmas 1986 - Volume 1 Number 9: "Hottest graphics videos! Get in the mood with last year's biggest hit, :QUEST: A Long Ray's Journey into Light. A wandering traveler loses his innocence and enters adulthood in an exploding climax that leaves you breathless! His ultimate penetration of the last remaining barrier adds a whole new dimension to your experience! $39.95. Specify Beta or VHS format."

I PAY THE PRICE TO ROLL WITH IT

Wouldn't surprise me they charged that much for this.

0:49

How did you find this on a LaserDisc?

Gentlmen.

Death grips sampled this 2:09

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