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This compelling and informative documentary takes viewers back to 1978. A time when technology is nowhere near the capacity in which it is today. During this voyage back in time we’re taken to Boeing Aircraft in Seattle where engineers were busily working to try and design an experimental aircraft. Loren Carpenter, a young computer scientist was helping them in this revolutionary adventure. He was attempting to help them visualize what planes might look like in flight.In order to do so, Carpenter would get the data from the engineers and create pictures of them from various angles, but he wanted to make it better. He wanted the ability to place a mountain behind them. At the time there was no method in which he would be able to do the mountains via the computer as they were made up of millions and millions of tiny polygons. Keep in mind back then, the computers were slower than those we currently have in our watches.

Hunting the Hidden Dimension takes us into this period of time in which Carpenter wanted to create a landscape that planes could fly through. Unfortunately there was no existing animation techniques that allow him to do so and so he started learning fractals and the fractal geometry of nature. This film examines fractals in-depth.