John Whitney-Permutations (1966)

[@mushroomagical]

Absolutely marvelous. I've watched this several times (relatively sober) and enjoyed it each time. Would love to eat a psilocybin mushroom and watch this.

[@binary132]

BLOWING MY MIND. wow. this guy was a genius!

[@atwaterpub]

Love to see this uploaded in HQ.

[@atwaterpub]

I actually saw this on film once over twenty years ago. Fantastic in a big theater. Love to see it in a digitally restored version.

[@IARRCSim]

@@atwaterpub would sharing a restored version get a copyright strike or something? Is the music and video still protected? If this was funded by an IBM research grant, I wonder if IBM has a master copy. I might be able to recreate something that looks similar with far better resolution but I'd want to be very confident that I could share what I make including the associated music without issues with youtube and copyright law. There's a tiny copyright notice at the beginning saying copyright 1966 something but the resolution is too low to read the rest.

[@PeeteyP]

according to wikipedia, he used analog computers until the 70's when started using digital computers- none of the sites I checked give any info on his actual production techniques (for his computer works)- he wrote a paper called computational periodics, which would suggest he was using mathematical formulae like sine waves and other periodics.

[@dragunovful]

trying to figure out why nav was watching this lol

[@guneyozsan]

This kind of studies can also help people with hearing disability to imagine the concept of music.

[@CocoaValley]

mmmmmm... bliss :)

[@Babintone]

I love. ♥

[@ephemeralife]

Awesome!

[@jacketsblue]

Flower of creation

[@omgtkseth]

@mariothepookster What? Whitney studied serial music with Leibowitz, and I think that this is analogy to serial music (point music), hence the name permutations. In case you dont know who Leibowitz is, he was pupil of Ravel, and teacher of Boulez.

[@omgtkseth]

@mariothepookster Just saying in case you didnt know. Its kinda obvious to people that are familiar with serial music, that its based on permutations, and that puts things in focus, Whitney's focus. But many people have never heard of serial music, and since there are only vague references in the description...

[@hoosahfudge]

awesome!

[@leap2222]

Mirando este video debe ser lo mas bizarro del mundo sentir 'John Whitney te odio! John Whitney te amo!'. Con la limitacion de recursos de todo estilo que habia en esa epoca llega a lograr algo tan nerdo como eso. Eso si que es admirable. Lo envidio totalmente, jeje!

[@relevance8]

@trojanlol It's on the original film. I saw this years ago on VHS, and it had the same music. Don't know where Whitney himself got it from, though.

[@KENKENNIFF]

Amazing, I wish it was early electronic music though.

[@marymeixner5556]

"Od roku 1966 spolupracoval s firmou IBM na počítači System 360, na němž vytvořil Permutations (1966), jeden z prvních filmů považovaných za umělecké dílo realizované plně pomocí počítače." (Martin Čihák, Ponorná řeka kinematografie. NAMU, Praha 2013. s. 113)

[@mariothepookster]

@omgtkseth sorry i was referring to what the video reminded me of. in this case, "string theory" as in physics and not to whom Whitney was influenced by or studied with.

[@syntruss]

Crazy how this 1 film started Claymation

[@GabrielLyrio369]

Does anyone know the name of the music? Thanks!!

[@Vamoshh]

Where can i get these in better quality?

[@IARRCSim]

It looks like winamp was around in 1966.

[@Gurbz55]

One word "TRIIIPPY"

[@mariothepookster]

pretty cool ... reminds me of string theory

[@rhythmdroid]

@PikoInit Specifically, AfterDark's program "Satori" heh heh heh

[@PeeteyP]

what's "polar form" - and how can I get it on my computer

[@echodelta9]

An oscilloscope can do this with 2 waveforms one x and one y. Games like Zaxon and Asteroids were of this type. It's all about 2 signals rather than one and time as the other.

[@puchindika]

Todo muy curioso

[@gatolocojko]

la cagooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!

[@mariothepookster]

@omgtkseth i guess i didn't get the memo

[@JeDorsBeaucoupTrop]

aRt !