Move · Which way? · it remembers
Element 32
Show it a movement; it keeps the path with the work and plays it back.
p-curves · motion paths · keyframe-free animation
Predicted as eka-Drag
The frame left this cell empty and described the act it should hold. On checking, it had already been built, by 1969. The table generated the act; it didn’t foresee it.
First known
Opened
1969Baecker's GENESYS, MIT TX-2: a mimicked stylus path (p-curve) is kept with the work and replayed.
June 1969 thesis.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
- ReadingValue
Specimen № 32 — operate freely
Grab a bee and fly it round the flowers. Let go, and it flies your route at your speed.
Fig. 32 — Mime
000 readings · idle
Down the Move column
Read down and Draw gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Mime takes.
- p-curves
- motion paths
- keyframe-free animation