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One of the elective courses in the final year of my undergraduate degree course in software engineering was Graphics I (and later followed by Graphics II). For our Graphics I project we were first shown Pixar's famous lamps short. After it had played we were told our project would be to do our own 3d animation greater than 1 minute in duration. The only restriction was that all objects needed to be generated in the program, so no loading up really complicated open source stuff. I wrote a 3d animation of fighting stick men which was way more than I could chew at the time so they ended up shooting each other from a distance :-p. Anyway since then I have been in love with generating all types of images using pure code.

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