[SIGCIS-Members] Graphics

Guy Fedorkow guy.fedorkow at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 16:46:01 PST 2021


hi Jacob,
   did you look into graphics displays on the Whirlwind computer built 
at MIT in the early 1950's?  We have good evidence that there were 
limited interactive graphics running there before 1952, but I don't know 
how that fits into work by other researchers
   Thanks
/guy


On 2/22/2021 8:08 PM, Jacob Gaboury wrote:
> This is exciting, thank you for sharing Dag! If I can I'd like to also 
> flag my own forthcoming book on the early history of computer graphics 
> from 1950-1980, with a focus on the University of Utah program. It 
> will be released in August 2021 from MIT Press: 
> https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/image-objects 
> <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/image-objects>
>
> -- 
> Jacob Gaboury
> Assistant Professor of New Media History and Theory
> Dept. of Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley
> jacobgaboury.com/ <http://www.jacobgaboury.com/>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 4:04 PM Dag Spicer 
> <dspicer at computerhistory.org <mailto:dspicer at computerhistory.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello friends,
>
>     Just a note about computer graphics: CG pioneer and Pixar
>     co-founder Alvy Ray Smith has completed an amazingly comprehensive
>     book on the origins and development of computer graphics. It is in
>     press right now with MIT Press and is named, “A Biography of the
>     the Pixel.” It will be available in Sept 2021. I have a pre-press
>     version and it’s superb, its coverage of humankind’s
>     expressiveness in art ranging from the cave paintings of Altamira
>     to /Toy Story/.
>
>     Read more at MIT Press here:
>     https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/biography-pixel
>     <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/biography-pixel>
>
>     To Infinity and Beyond!
>
>     Dag
>     ——
>     Dag Spicer
>     Senior Curator
>     Computer History Museum
>
>     1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
>     Mountain View, CA 94043
>     dspicer at computerhistory.org <mailto:dspicer at computerhistory.org>
>
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