[SIGCIS-Members] Graphics

[Jacob Gaboury]

Hello Guy,

I discuss this work a bit in the chapter on early framebuffer technology,
which has been published in article form here:
http://www.greyroom.org/issues/70/79/the-random-access-image-memory-and-the-history-of-the-computer-screen/

However, the book mostly deals with 3D graphics and object modeling at
Utah, with the bulk of the archival material from the 1960s and 1970s. That
said, I believe Alvy's book will cover a very broad swath of computer
history, and he has been particularly interested in the origins of the
pixel at MIT and elsewhere in the late-40s and early-50s. You can see that
work in this piece from the IEEE:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7119886

_Jacob

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 4:46 PM Guy Fedorkow <guy.fedorkow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> 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>
> 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
>>
>> To Infinity and Beyond!
>>
>> Dag
>> ——
>> Dag Spicer
>> Senior Curator
>> Computer History Museum
>>
>> 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
>> Mountain View, CA 94043
>> dspicer at computerhistory.org
>>
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