A Brief History of Computer Graphics 1950S 1960S 1970S 1980S 1990S

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1 4 1970s Megatek A Brief History of Computer Graphics • Direct View Storage Tubes (Oregon’s own Tektronix!) • Color raster displays (CRTs) • Hardware-accelerated vector displays • Commercial production companies emerge • SIGGRAPH conferences (started in 1974) • Star Wars Episode IV IBM

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1950s 2 1980s Pixar 5 • Dynamic color raster displays 20th Century Fox • Flight simulators • Pen Plotters • Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) • Computer-controlled oscilloscopes • Pixar Pixar • Scientific visualization • Luxo Jr., Tin Toy • The Last Starfighter, TRON, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Young Sherlock Holmes, The Abyss • Jen-Hsun Huang graduates from Oregon Evans & Sutherland State with a BSEE degree,1984 Evans & Sutherland Lorimar

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1960s 3 1990s 6 Nvidia • Texture-mapping in hardware • Vector displays • OpenGL • Interaction • PC graphics cards • Ivan Sutherland’s SketchPad project • Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Star Wars Episode 1

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1 2000s 7 Where Are We Now? 10 • Hardware Shaders Pixar • OpenGL-ES (Embedded Systems, i.e., intended for underpowered hardware) • Ongoing OpenGL-ES/WebGL merger with OpenGL • More movies! desktop Pixar 20th Century Fox • Mobile platforms (tablets, phones) We’re waiting for December 22. That’s where we are. Disney • 3D movies

Disney • Virtual and Augmented Reality

Illumination Entertainment • Hardware support for ray-tracing

Pixar Pixar • Vulkan, DX12, Metal

• Game Engines and giant screens being used for live backgrounds in movies

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2000s 8 That Last Picture Needs Some More Discussion 11 • CG is now so much a part of movies that we don’t even think about it

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