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History of Computer Graphics

The computer graphics are invented by researchers Verne Hudson and William
Fetter of Boeing. It is often brief as computer graphics.
1940-1941: The first directly digital computer-generated graphics that would
associate with today as being actual CG. The very first radiosity image was
invented at MIT in the 1940s.
1946: The images were first presented at the 1946 national technical conference
of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
1948: The images were published in the book: Lighting Design by Moon and D.
E. Spencer. 1948.
1950: John Whitney Sr. invents his computer-assisted mechanisms to create
some of his graphic artwork and short films.
1951: Vectorscope computer graphics display on the computer at MIT.
The General Motors Research Laboratory also begins the study of computer-
aided graphical design applications.
1955: Sage system uses the first light pen as an input device at MIT Lab by Bert
Sutherland.
1956: Lawrence Livermore labs associate graphics display with IBM 704 and film
recorder for color images.
Bertram Herzog uses analog computers to create CRT graphics in the behavior
of military vehicles at the University of Michigan computing center.
1957: In the National Bureau of Standards first image-processed photo was
used.
The IBM 740 created a sequence of points on a CRT monitor to represent lines
and shapes.
1958: Steven Coons, Ivan Sutherland, and Timothy Johnson started working
with the TX-2 computer system to manipulate the drawn pictures.1959: The first
commercial film recorder produced in San Diego, CA.
Don Hart and Ed Jacks invented the first computer-aided drawing system at
General Motors Research Laboratory and IBM.
1960: William Fetter was first termed “Computer Graphics” for cockpit drawing.
John Whitney Sr. invents motion graphics in LA.
1962: In MIT Lincoln Laboratory Ivan Sutherland produced a man-machine
graphical communication system.
1963: An analog computer was developed by Charles Csuri and used to
transform a drawing.
Edgar Horwood introduced a computer graphics mapping system which is used
by U. S. Housing and urban development.
1965: IBM 2250, the first graphics computer available.
1966: Ralph Baer developed the first consumer computer graphics game,
“Odyssey.”
1968: Tony Pritchett made the first computer animation “FLEXIPEDE” in the
UK.
1972: Nolan Bushnell, “the father of Electronic games,” developed PONG
game.
1973: The concept of Z-buffer algorithm and texture mapping were developed
by Edwin Catmull.
1974: The Phong shading method is developed by Phong Bui-Toung.
1975: Dr. Edwin Catmull introduced the Tween animation system.
1976: The first 3D appearance film was created by Gary Demos, John Whitey
Jr. at Triple-I.
1978: For the mechanical Universe Jim Blinn produced the first series of
animation. Jim Blinn has also published the technique of bump mapping.
1979: Ray tracing created at Bell Laboratory & Cornell University.
1980: The first digital computer was used in computer graphics in the Digital
Equipment Corporation(DEC).
1981: The making of computer graphics for IMAX film format is done by Nelson
Max at Lawrence Liver more National Laboratory. The Donkey Kong video game
was introduced by Nintendo.
1982: The first broad use of 3D graphics animation was done in Disney featured
film.
AutoCAD 1.0 is launched-It is only used for wire frame representation.
1985: Medical imaging software combined with Voxel technology.
1987: Video graphics array (VGA) standard was introduced.
1989: Super video graphics array (SVGA) was recommended. Tim Berners Lee
developed the first website ever, which has the original URL (Universal resource
locator).
1993: Mosaic, the web browser was released by UIUC for general usage.
The Mosaic, the first web browser was released. First public call made by cell
phone.
1994: Netscape founded by developers of the Mosaic.
1995: First, fully CGI (Computer-generated imagery) was released. MS Internet
Explorer 1.0 released.
2000: The first web-based CAD system Sketchup released.
2006: Google acquires Sketchup.
2007: Apple launches its iPhone and iPod Touch products with touchscreen graphical user
interfaces
2009: The state of the art of computer graphics, as of 2009, was brief in a short
video.
2013: Now, it is possible to create graphics on a home computer.
2015: Big data is being used to create animations.
2018: Now, we can create “realistic” graphics on mobile phones. We can also
create a completely CGI-based human face in real-time.

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