Hollywood And Computer Animation

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and as hard to control as
dinosaurs must have been in their own time. Like dinosaurs, the hardware
systems, or muscles, of early computer graphics were huge and ungainly. The
machines often filled entire buildings.
Also like dinosaurs, the software programs or brains of computer graphics were
hopelessly underdeveloped. Fortunately for the visual arts, the evolution of
both brains and brawn of computer graphics did not take eons to develop. It has,
instead, taken only three decades to move from science fiction to current
technological trends. With computers out of the stone age, we have moved into
the leading edge of the silicon era. Imagine sitting at a computer without any
visual feedback on a monitor. There would be no spreadsheets, no word
processors, not even simple games like solitaire. This is what it was like in
the early days of computers. The only way to interact with a computer at that
time was through toggle switches, flashing lights, punchcards, and ...

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that came out of the University of Utah in the
60's and 70's. During this time, Evans and Sutherland also founded the first
computer graphics company. Aptly named Evans & Sutherland (E&S), the company was
established in 1968 and rolled out its first computer graphics systems in 1969.
Up until this time, the only computers available that could create pictures were
custom-designed for the military and prohibitively expensive. E&S's computer
system could draw wireframe images extremely rapidly, and was the first
commercial "workstation" created for computer-aided design (CAD). It found its
earliest customers in both the automotive and aerospace industries. Times ...

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