Scanimate
スキャニメイト / 1969–1980s / Technique / Broadcast Design
The analog video synthesizer that warped CRT images electrically in real time — the true source of the glowing, flying, undulating logos of 1970s–80s television, and the industry's motion engine before digital.
Glowing outlines / Electronic undulation / Rainbow glow / Scanline texture
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Computer Image Corporation / Dave Sieg's preservation work / the modern reappraisal of analog wobble