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1973

E&S begins marketing first commercial frame buffer

Ethernet - Bob Metcalf (Harvard)

Westworld - uses 2D graphics

Circle Graphics Habitat founded at Univ. Illinois Chicago (Tom DeFanti & Dan Sandin)

first SIGGRAPH conference (Boulder)

3/4 inch portapack replaces 16mm film for news gathering

Richard Shoup develops PARC raster display

Rich Riesenfeld (Syracuse) introduces b-splines

Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics (Newman and Sproull) first comprehensive graphics textbook is published
1974

Motion Pictures Product Group formed at III by John Whitney, Jr. and Gary Demos

Alex Schure opens CGL at NYIT, with Ed Catmull as Director

SuperPaint developed by Dick Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith

TCP protocol (Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn)

DEC VT52 incorporated the first addressable cursor in a graphics display terminal

Intel 8080

z-buffer developed by Ed Catmull (University of Utah) (Ref: E. Catmull. A Subdivision Algorithm for Computer Display of Curved Surfaces, Ph.D. Thesis, Report UTEC-CSc-74-133, Computer Science Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1974)

Futureworld (sequel to Westworld) uses 3D CGI (III)

Hunger produced by Peter Foldes at National Research Council of Canada; wins Cannes Film Festival Prix de Jury award for animation
1975

Phong shading - Bui-Toung Phong (University of Utah) (Ref: Bui-Tuong, Phong. Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures. Communications of the ACM 18(6) June 1975, p. 311-317.)

Sony Betamax recorder

Altair 8800 computer

fractals - Benoit Mandelbrot (IBM)

Winged edge polyhedra representation (Bruce Baumgart)

Catmull curved surface rendering algorithm (Ref: Catmull, Edwin. Computer Display of Curved Surfaces. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Graphics, Pattern Recognition and Data Structures (IEEE Cat. No. 75CH0981-1C) 1975, p. 11-17. )

Bill Gates starts Microsoft

Martin Newell (Utah) develops CGI teapot (physical teapot now in the Computer Museum in Boston)

JPL Graphics Lab developed (Bob Holzman)

Arabesque completed (John Whitney)

Anima animation system developed at CGRG at Ohio State (Csuri)

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TheFLY So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: http://www.thefly.net/ --- Quit your job and live off steady traffic. Posts: 11,856	1973 E&S begins marketing first commercial frame buffer Ethernet - Bob Metcalf (Harvard) Westworld - uses 2D graphics Circle Graphics Habitat founded at Univ. Illinois Chicago (Tom DeFanti & Dan Sandin) first SIGGRAPH conference (Boulder) 3/4 inch portapack replaces 16mm film for news gathering Richard Shoup develops PARC raster display Rich Riesenfeld (Syracuse) introduces b-splines Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics (Newman and Sproull) first comprehensive graphics textbook is published 1974 Motion Pictures Product Group formed at III by John Whitney, Jr. and Gary Demos Alex Schure opens CGL at NYIT, with Ed Catmull as Director SuperPaint developed by Dick Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith TCP protocol (Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn) DEC VT52 incorporated the first addressable cursor in a graphics display terminal Intel 8080 z-buffer developed by Ed Catmull (University of Utah) (Ref: E. Catmull. A Subdivision Algorithm for Computer Display of Curved Surfaces, Ph.D. Thesis, Report UTEC-CSc-74-133, Computer Science Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1974) Futureworld (sequel to Westworld) uses 3D CGI (III) Hunger produced by Peter Foldes at National Research Council of Canada; wins Cannes Film Festival Prix de Jury award for animation 1975 Phong shading - Bui-Toung Phong (University of Utah) (Ref: Bui-Tuong, Phong. Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures. Communications of the ACM 18(6) June 1975, p. 311-317.) Sony Betamax recorder Altair 8800 computer fractals - Benoit Mandelbrot (IBM) Winged edge polyhedra representation (Bruce Baumgart) Catmull curved surface rendering algorithm (Ref: Catmull, Edwin. Computer Display of Curved Surfaces. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Graphics, Pattern Recognition and Data Structures (IEEE Cat. No. 75CH0981-1C) 1975, p. 11-17. ) Bill Gates starts Microsoft Martin Newell (Utah) develops CGI teapot (physical teapot now in the Computer Museum in Boston) JPL Graphics Lab developed (Bob Holzman) Arabesque completed (John Whitney) Anima animation system developed at CGRG at Ohio State (Csuri)