Randy Roberts

Computer Magic provides a highly entertaining and informative look at how advanced computers are being used to create art, animation and special effects.

Early computed animation in which two characters meet and fall in love.

A computer-animated paper airplane.

A retrospective of the work of Robert Abel and Associates, a pioneering commercial computer graphics company that created some of the most iconic early computer-generated imagery. Included here are over 40 commercial spots, ranging from 30-second commercials and commercial logos, to their 1984 animated short "High Fidelity".

A woman in the year 3000 asks that age-old question: "What's for dinner?"