This great Metafilter post by Codacorolla links to cutting edge computer graphics demos for all the years from 1989 to 2010. It's a vivid demonstration of the astounding rate of change in CGI, and a humbling reminder that this year's jaw-dropping CGI is next year's chunky, awkward crudity.
The future, for a little while anyway
- Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad 1963 – Boing Boing
- Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP – Boing Boing
- Video: The making of original Star Wars' computer graphics – Boing …
- How a 1950s ballistic computer worked – Boing Boing
- Video: A Brief History of the Modern Pixel – Boing Boing
- Molecular animators and biological cinema – Boing Boing