The Computational Videodisc

The optical videodisc has radically augmented the visual environment of realtime computer graphics from one of simple geometric shapes, ultra-saturated interiors, and jagged borders to one of pictorial richness, full motion dynamics, and high fidelity stereo sound. The 54,000 frames that comprise one side of a disc may be displayed individually, perused, or concatenated into 30 frame per second sync-sound movies. All this is available in a graphics environment more akin to an Apple home computer than a flight simulator.