Re: [SIGCIS-Members] CGI history - clarification
Hi, Peter Meyers kindly pointed out that CGI could be any number of things, so I will clarify: I'm looking for Computer Graphics / Computer Generated Imagery. Specifically, I'm hoping to find some people who know this history from its inception; or some very interested fans who might be willing to read portions of a manuscript on the subject. (I'm toying with the idea of posting the manuscript and allowing a smallish group of readers access to it, so that people might comment on the sections with which they are familiar. The manuscript has already undergone traditional peer review.) I'm glad to elaborate on the subject of the manuscript or the process. Please do let me know if you are interested or can suggest some names. Thanks! Margy PS - and thanks to Peter for his suggestion -------------------------------------------------------------------- Marguerite Avery Senior Acquisitions Editor - Information Science and Science, Technology, & Society The MIT Press 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142 | mavery@mit.edu<mailto:|mavery@mit.edu> | 617-253-1653 | 617-258-6779 (fax) | http://mitpress.mit.edu From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Marguerite B Avery Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:04 PM To: members@SIGCIS.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] CGI history Hi, I'm looking for some scholars who work on CGI or have knowledge of its history. Please send me a message if you might be that person or can suggest someone working in this space. Many thanks! Margy ________________________________ Marguerite Avery Senior Acquisitions Editor - Communications, Information Science, and Science, Technology, & Society The MIT Press 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142 (v) 617-253-1653 (f) 617-258-6779 mavery@mit.edu<mailto:mavery@mit.edu> http://mitpress.mit.edu
It is a shame that Carl Manchover never wrote a book on the history of computer graphics. His papers at CBI would be of use to you. The topic of ³Computer Graphics² is VERY big, and goes back to the first computers using Williams/Kilburn tubes. By ³Computer Generated Imagery² do you mean synthetic images created for display on a raster-scanned monitor? On 5/11/12 7:23 AM, "Marguerite B Avery" <mavery@MIT.EDU> wrote:
Hi,
Peter Meyers kindly pointed out that CGI could be any number of things, so I will clarify: I¹m looking for Computer Graphics / Computer Generated Imagery. Specifically, I¹m hoping to find some people who know this history from its inception; or some very interested fans who might be willing to read portions of a manuscript on the subject.
Chapter 3, "Getting the Picture: The Growth of Interactive Computer Graphics" in Norberg and O'Neill's book on the influence of ARPA on computer science, has a history of computer graphics, focusing particularly on Ivan Sutherland, who developed SketchPad at MIT, and the ARPA sponsorship of the University of Utah, which became the center for the development of computer graphics in the 1960s and 1970s. Ed Catmull of Pixar was one of Sutherland's students at Utah, and his work is detailed on pages 140-143. Norberg, Arthur, and Judy E. O’neill. Transforming Computer Technology : Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. On May 11, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Marguerite B Avery wrote:
Hi,
Peter Meyers kindly pointed out that CGI could be any number of things, so I will clarify: I’m looking for Computer Graphics / Computer Generated Imagery. Specifically, I’m hoping to find some people who know this history from its inception; or some very interested fans who might be willing to read portions of a manuscript on the subject. (I’m toying with the idea of posting the manuscript and allowing a smallish group of readers access to it, so that people might comment on the sections with which they are familiar. The manuscript has already undergone traditional peer review.)
I’m glad to elaborate on the subject of the manuscript or the process.
Please do let me know if you are interested or can suggest some names.
Thanks!
Margy
PS – and thanks to Peter for his suggestion
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Marguerite Avery Senior Acquisitions Editor - Information Science and Science, Technology, & Society The MIT Press 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142 | mavery@mit.edu | 617-253-1653 | 617-258-6779 (fax) | http://mitpress.mit.edu
From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Marguerite B Avery Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:04 PM To: members@SIGCIS.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] CGI history
Hi,
I'm looking for some scholars who work on CGI or have knowledge of its history. Please send me a message if you might be that person or can suggest someone working in this space.
Many thanks!
Margy Marguerite Avery Senior Acquisitions Editor – Communications, Information Science, and Science, Technology, & Society The MIT Press 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142 (v) 617-253-1653 (f) 617-258-6779 mavery@mit.edu http://mitpress.mit.edu
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http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v32n3 SIGGRAPH did some work for their 25th anniversary. “siggraph computer history” is a useful search term On 5/11/12 8:00 AM, "Hansen Hsu" <hansnhsu@gmail.com> wrote:
Chapter 3, "Getting the Picture: The Growth of Interactive Computer Graphics" in Norberg and O'Neill's book on the influence of ARPA on computer science, has a history of computer graphics, focusing particularly on Ivan Sutherland, who developed SketchPad at MIT, and the ARPA sponsorship of the University of Utah, which became the center for the development of computer graphics in the 1960s and 1970s. Ed Catmull of Pixar was one of Sutherland's students at Utah, and his work is detailed on pages 140-143.
Norberg, Arthur, and Judy E. O’neill. Transforming Computer Technology : Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
And there is a private collector who specializes in computer graphics artifacts. http://computergraphicsmuseum.org/
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