Alan Norton's groundbreaking graphics work from 1989 done at IBM Research on physically based animation. Basically, you mathematically created a world, put a mathematical object into it, and turned on the world to see what happened. The Utah Teapot was the common object used within graphics research. Alan's notion was to tease the community by breaking their common object. This is my video of Alan describing his research. For those interested in the fundamental figures in computer science, here is the raw footage of two 1990 interviews with John Cocke, the inventor of RISC architecture. An amazing and wonderful man....