By contrast, Alan Norton, of NY’s IBM Research, was putting together a graphics presentation for a conference and this was the project video I made for him to show. In 1989, he was able to create a physically based world in graphics with laws of physics defining what would happen when you let it run, then kept adjusting things until his world did what he wanted it to. To do this, he was connecting together all of our computers around the world at the times when people were sleeping and there was less strain on the systems. The contrast between what was possible then and now is simply staggering.
The demo vase and teapot were grandmother’s and my bestie’s daughter was the one catching the teapot under the table each time Alan had a take. We had to spray non-glare onto Alan’s glasses to get thru this. He was truly one of the wonderful people at Research.
Computer History - Breaking the Utah Teapot - 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NQuHpUyZbI
thank you; how did his prediction for 20 years later wok out?