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Here is typical example of raytraced image of that era. Took couple hours with Iyonix running Render Bender 2 under Aemulator. (Early Archimedes raytracer.)

Another one. This time with SolidsRENDER and this one only took 2h 59 minutes to finish.

WTF?

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The last one is even scary.

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Some of what you're seeing may be due to them being rendered to film (via film recorders) -- the analog response of film is very distinctive, and I personally like it very much!

I had the opportunity to buy a Polaroid slide recorder once, but I wasn't sure if it could be adapted to 4-perf cine format.

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I recently scored a LaserGraphics 8k film recorder on ebay -- should be here in a few days. I can't wait to pipe some renderings into it to get that oldschool look Actually the reason I bought it is to experiment with getting an authentic film look with digital photos. I am/was a film snob, and hate how fake the typical Instagram-type filters look...

Back on topic, you guys might enjoy this: http://imgur.com/a/srtUw (scans of Creative Computer Graphics, a 1984 book about computer graphics -- primarily 3D)

Surprised no one's mentioned UNISURF yet, developed by the man himself, Pierre Bezier in 1965: http://books.google.com/books?id=XY9qFd6TjskC&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false

By comparison everyone else was late to the party!

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