MAGI SYNTHAVISION

Mathematics Applied to Geometry and Imagery (MAGI) was founded in 1966 by Dr. Philip Mittelman to trace nuclear radiation through shielding. In 1972, building on Robert Goldstein and Roger Nagel's 1971 "3-D Visual Simulation" paper, Goldstein opened the SynthaVision graphics division and the same ray-casting mathematics was redirected: instead of tracking neutrons through matter, it tracked light through solids.

The insight: a shape is a boolean expression, not a mesh. A flying saucer is sphere ∩ sphere. A tank body is box − cylinder. Any form that can be described arithmetically can be rendered.

Classicery accession 013A · Cart 013 / 019 · renato.design

This is a clone, not the original. Classicery's SV room is a clean-room recreation of MAGI's SynthaVision (1972) — no original code, assets, screenshots, or fonts are used. MAGI, SynthaVision, TRON, and all other named systems and products are trademarks of their respective owners. Classicery and Phil Renato claim no trademark or copyright interest in any of them and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by MAGI, Disney, Lockheed, Information International Inc., Mathematical Applications Group Inc., the estate of any named person, or any of their successors. Historical claims here are extrapolated from the public record; rooms are visual + interactive interpretation, not preservation.

FROM THE LITERATURE · SynthaVision was already ray-casting CSG solids in 1972, anticipating the rendering papers that named the technique. Hear the source papers read aloud in CANON · 001B:
→ track 10 · Whitted · Ray Tracing · 1979–80
→ track 12 · Perlin · Noise · 1985
→ track 13 · Kajiya · Rendering Equation · 1986