Ars Electronica Festival · 1990
Tipsy Turvy
by Alan Norton
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1990
In 1990, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Tipsy Turvy” by Alan Norton (Computer Animation) with a Honorary Mention. Alan Norton has 1 more work in this atlas.
The star of “Tipsy Turvy” is the “Utah teapot”, a computer graphics teapot, designed by Martin Newell in 1971, that has come to symbolize the modern computer graphics achievement of making realistic pictures of real objects. At the start of the animation, the teapot is apparently suffering from a hangover.
About Alan Norton
Alan Norton was born and grew up in Utah. He attended the University of Utah where he received his B.A. degree in mathematics in 1968. He attended Princeton University where in 1976 he received his Ph.D.
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