In 1980, Boeing employee Loren Carpenter presented a film called Vol Libre at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. It was the world's first film using fractals to generate the graphics. Even now it's impressive to watch:

http://www.kottke.org/09/07/vol-libre-an-amazing-cg-film-from-1980

Tags: CG, computer, fractals, graphics

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