MOVING INNOVATION

Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between St eamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It began in 1963 when an MIT graduate student named Ivan Sutherland c reated Sketchpad, the first true computer animation program. Sutherland noted: Since motion can be put into Sketchpad drawings, it m ight be exciting to try making cartoons. This book, the first full-length history of CG, shows us how Sutherland's seemingly offhand idea gr...[Leer más]