{"id":4066,"date":"2019-08-24T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2019-08-24T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:43:10","slug":"computers-are-for-funny-cat-movies-even-in-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4066","title":{"rendered":"Computers are for funny cat movies &#8211; even in 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sebqkS_EKBE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 40 years ago in 1968, a team led by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etudes.ru\/data\/localdocs\/konst.jpg\">Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov<\/a>\u00a0created a mathematical model of the motion of a cat.\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etudes.ru\/ru\/popup\/besm\/\">BESM-4<\/a>\u00a0machine, executing a written program for solving ordinary  differential equations, draws a cartoon cat. Each frame was physically printed using a standard desktop printer (using W&#8217;s to fill the drawing space), photographed, then put together into this simple animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more about it here (use google translate):  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etudes.ru\/ru\/etudes\/cat-animation\/\">http:\/\/www.etudes.ru\/ru\/etudes\/cat-animation\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 years ago in 1968, a team led by\u00a0Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov\u00a0created a mathematical model of the motion of a cat.\u00a0The\u00a0BESM-4\u00a0machine, executing a written program for solving ordinary differential equations, draws a cartoon cat. Each frame was physically printed using a standard desktop printer (using W&#8217;s to fill the drawing space), photographed, then put together into this simple animation. Read more about it here (use google translate): http:\/\/www.etudes.ru\/ru\/etudes\/cat-animation\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-13A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}