Pictures from the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab

List of people who worked at NYIT CGL.
Group photos.
NYITer's: where are they now?


Pictures from "The Works" Film Project

"The Works" was a pioneering 3-D computer animation project at NYIT (the New York Institute of Technology) in the early 1980's. Fragments of its amazing history are recorded on other web pages, but unfortunately, the full story has never been written.

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Works Logo, Lance Williams, Dick Lundin, Christie Barton, Tom Duff, Thad Beier, et. al, 1980

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Ant and Ipso Facto (cover image for Byte magazine), Dick Lundin and Lance Williams, 1980

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Ant Jockey, Dick Lundin and Ned Greene, 1983

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Bulldog Robot, designed by Bil Maher, modeled by Carter Burwell, 1981

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Clyde, Ned Greene, 1981

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Clyde Closeup, Ned Greene, 1981

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Officer Weevil, designed by Bil Maher, modeled by Carter Burwell, 1981

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Another World, Ned Greene, 1983

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Saxobone, Dick Lundin, 1982

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Images from "The Works", Lance Williams, Dick Lundin, Bil Maher, Carter Burwell, Ned Greene, Thad Beier, Rebecca Allen, Paul Heckbert, Debbie Sloan, 1982


Other Pictures

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RGB histogram of Franz Marc's "Blue Horses" (Scientific Visualization by Volume Rendering with Splatting -- before any of those terms had been popularized), Paul Heckbert, 1983

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Robot Home, Paul Heckbert, 1980

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Raygun, Paul Heckbert, 1981

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Metal Face, Paul Heckbert, 1983

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Eyes, Paul Heckbert, 1981

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Facet-Gouraud-Phong, Paul Heckbert, face model by Fred Parke, 1981

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fface, Fred Parke and Lance Williams, 1981

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Mirror Morphine (ray tracing with soft shadows), Paul Heckbert, 1983

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Steiner's Surface (ray tracing algebraic surfaces), Pat Hanrahan, 1983

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Bluebell (polygonized isosurface, using what was later called the "marching cubes" algorithm), Kevin Hunter, 1982

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The Mighty Maple, Jules Bloomenthal, 1985

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Nacre, Lance Williams, 1982

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Poster for American Film Institute, Lance Williams and Ed Emshwiller, 1982

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Source image for all frogulation research at NYIT, Lance Williams

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Climbing the Jagged Staircase to Raster Graphics, Rebecca Allen and Thad Beier, 1982

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The Shell, Peter Oppenheimer, 1983

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Mondo Condo, Ned Greene, 1983

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Castle by Moonlight, Ned Greene, 1982

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Promo for PBS NOVA series, David Geshwind, 1981

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Waves, John Lewis (appeared in ACM Trans. on Graphics, July 1987)
More zilla pix

Sunstone video, Ed Emshwiller, Alvy Ray Smith, Lance Williams, Garland Stern, 1979

Electric Cafe, Kraftwerk CD cover, Rebecca Allen, Steve DiPaola, Robert McDermott, Amber Denker, Peter Oppenheimer, 1986

Some of Bil Maher's designs: T-Square, 1980, Dot Matrix, 1982, and his career history.

Gumby, Hank Grebe and Dick Lundin, 1984

Wayne Carlson's collection of NYIT images


Gerry House

This was the "pink building" housing the Computer Graphics Lab.

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Gerry House in winter


Holloway House

Many of the lab members lived in this house.

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Holloway House

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Front of Holloway House

Holloway House is for sale, $1,500,000 as of 7/99. Northwood Realty's color photo.


This collection created by Paul Heckbert; help from Ephraim Cohen. June 1998.
Please send additions/corrections to me.