Rendering of a Planned Highway

By this time, BESK had been equipped with a specially designed digital oscilloscope with a resolution of about 1 megapixel. The monitor was called a function printer, the concept of monitor had not yet been born. In front of the oscilloscope, a 35 mm camera with extended magazine was mounted on a custom-made stand. The camera was automatically controlled by the computer, which sent a signal to the camera when a new image was fed onto the oscilloscope.

At Nordic ADB, which calculated masses and launch data on BESK, they had realized that they had all the coordinates to be able to draw perspective from the driver's seat. As an example of this, they brought out how the then newly designed motorway towards Nacka outside Stockholm would look like. With the camera in front of the oscilloscope, they could snap a picture every twenty meters of the virtual road. The result was a 30-second fictitious journey on the virtual highway at a speed of 110 km/h.

The film was transferred to 16 mm format and made in 100 copies. The Technical Museum has the only known surviving copy of the film in its collections. On the box of the film roll it says that it is the first computer-drawn film in the world. There are many indications that this is actually true and that this is the world's first computer animation.