{"id":773,"date":"2011-05-29T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2011-05-29T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T20:58:12","slug":"head-tripping-3d-art-of-the-early-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/773\/head-tripping-3d-art-of-the-early-1990s","title":{"rendered":"Head-Tripping 3D Art of the Early 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/264970\/head-tripping-3d-art-of-the-early-1990s\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcmag\/headtrip_small.jpg\" alt=\"Head-Tripping 3D Art of the Early 1990s on PCMag.com\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up now on PCMag is a slideshow I made showcasing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/264970\/head-tripping-3d-art-of-the-early-1990s\" target=\"_blank\">freaky-weird 3D amateur computer art of the early 1990s<\/a>.  It&#8217;s composed mostly of GIF files from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/161\" target=\"_blank\">BBS era<\/a> that I&#8217;ve been collecting for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet of the introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back in the early 1990s, when 3D computer-generated art was still a new thing, a brave new breed of amateur artists emerged. They took up early 3D CGI (computer generated imagery) tools and created graphical works that they then shared on dial-up BBSes and CompuServe.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve collected dozens of these now-vintage images, and I recently noticed that many of them are, well, more than a little bizarre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you&#8217;re done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/slideshow\/story\/264970\/head-tripping-3d-art-of-the-early-1990s\" target=\"_blank\">checking out the slideshow<\/a>, feel free to post your fondest memories of vintage CGI graphics.  And if you have any bizarre 3D CGI images of your own to share, please post a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up now on PCMag is a slideshow I made showcasing freaky-weird 3D amateur computer art of the early 1990s. It&#8217;s composed mostly of GIF files from the BBS era that I&#8217;ve been collecting for some time now. Here&#8217;s a snippet of the introduction: Back in the early 1990s, when 3D computer-generated art was still a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20,7,24,35,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-bbs-history","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-internet-history","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}