NASA's 1984 MADRAS: a BASIC program for modular AI-style drawings
anselm · x · 2026-10-01
A resurfaced NASA document from 1984 describes MADRAS (Multi-Adaptive Drawings, Renderings, and Similitudes), a program written in BASIC that used modular object construction to generate wireframe and hidden-line drawings from any viewpoint — a fun early ancestor of today's AI image tools.