including early work on The Andromeda Strain, the Jackson’s music video “Can You Feel It,” and the first computer game to have animated backgrounds played on a laserdisc, Cube Quest.

Early in the movie, Lasseter credits the book “Walt Disney’s Art of Animation ... (the first 3-D computer effect featured in a movie) and Loren Carpenter’s 1980 fractal landscape experiment ...

Marcus du Sautoy describes how fractal geometry can be used to describe natural objects, and how it is used in digital animation. Trees use the simple rule of trying to maximise surface area ...