Lapis

Duration:

Year Published: 1966

Creator: James Whitney

Complete Record: An abstract art film composed of images produced by an analog computer. The shifting kaleidoscopic patterns, mandalas, and starbursts trace a patterning of mystic meditation, accompanied by the sitar music of Ravi Shankar. Mathematically precise early computer-aided animated piece based around the meditative-like inward and outward flow of images of the mandala. Early computer animation Film by James Whitney