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There was no commercial software, no computer at disposal of the artists or simply accessible, no status for the artist programmer nor a specific research laboratory. A first solution: leave to the United States, where existed directors of laboratory capable of understanding that artists could be integrated in a research environment. And so we were generously welcomed in the " Production Automation Project " of the University of Rochester, steered by Herbert Voelcker and Aristide Requicha, during year 1981-1982. A computer VAX 780 of Digital was suddenly accessible , without prevention of no sort, what seemed to us almost incredible... With the support of a good research environment in particular that of the director Aristides Requicha, we developed the bases of modelling and rendering of our software RODIN.

A kind newspaper of February, 1982 measures the surprise born in France in front of the emergence of 3D in the art: with one of our first rough images made in September, 1981 in the University of Rochester, to illustrate the paintbrush of the XXIth century...