Figure 1: A plotter rendered drawing of a proposed building.
Figure 2: Hand drawn design of a polyhedra which approximates a human head.
Figure 3: Two shaded pictures of the head as generated on a SC4020 with intensity control. The viewpoint and the position of the light source has been changed in the views. The mood of each picture is very different.
Figure 4: Wire frame design view on a 2250 display and the same scene after the hidden lines were eliminated by telecommunications. Notice that four of the components are copies of each other but are shifted in space.
Figure 5: Four typical frames from a three dimensional sequence. The positions of the objects and the viewpoint have been continuously changed.
3D Models/Renders by Arthur Appel for the 1970 Research Paper The Interactive Design of Three-Dimensional Animation, co-authored by Arthur Stein and Julie Landstein at IBM. Featuring what may possibly be the very first polygonal CGI modeled human head.
