Calculated Movements by Larry Cuba

In this masterpiece of computer animation, Calculated Movements, Larry Cuba demonstrates his painstaking method of computer animation, creating elaborately choreographed scenes using basic elements that are repeated and arranged in a hierarchical fashion. As each level builds on the one before it, Gene Youngblood wrote that “if there is a Bach of abstract animation it is Larry Cuba,” creating aesthetically stunning compositions with intricate mathematical structures and cascading designs. Inspired by abstract animation pioneers such as Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger, Cuba created Calculated Movements at his Santa Cruz studio with a Datamax UV-1 personal computer and Tom DeFanti’s ZGRASS graphics language. Cuba could now work with solid areas and volumes, breaking away from the conventional dot-based rendering thanks to this raster-graphics system.