Vol Libre – Loren Carpenter of Boeing

The first film to use fractals to generate graphics, this little-known animated short was decades ahead of its time and presaged the now ubiquitous usage of fractals in computer graphics and film. The animation was produced at Boeing, where Carpenter was employed. He created it to simulate backgrounds for images of experimental plane designs. This marks another innovation in computer graphics history from Boeing, dating back to the 1960s and William Fetter.