Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1962
Lee Harrison III Builds ANIMAC
ANIMAC, a hybrid graphic animator and precursor to Scanimate was an early motion capture system. It featured sensors mounted on a person that were captured on a screen. This was an important development in the history of computer video art, particularly attempts to capture human motion such as generative dance and choreography.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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People
Movements
computer animation, computer art, video art
Filed under
- Ideas
- choreography, dance, Generative Choreography, video art
- Technologies
- ANIMAC, computer animation, computer art, motion capture, Scanimate, sensors
- People
- Lee Harrison III
- Works
- Computer Video
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