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 Tektronix Mike Bailey LucasFilm [email protected] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Tektronix Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Computer Graphics Computer Graphics History.pptx mjb – September 9, 2021 mjb – September 9, 2021 1 4 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 MAGI Calcomp Tektronix LucasFilm Computer Graphics Computer Graphics LucasFilm mjb – September 9, 2021 mjb – September 9, 2021 2 5 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 Amblin Entertainment CarolCo Pictures Imlac MIT Pixar LucasFilm Computer Graphics Computer Graphics mjb – September 9, 2021 mjb – September 9, 2021 3 6 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 Computer Graphics Computer Graphics mjb – September 9, 2021 mjb – September 9, 2021 7 10 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 Marvel Studios Disney Disney Pixar Pixar Pixar Disney Computer Graphics Computer Graphics mjb – September 9, 2021 mjb – September 9, 2021 8 11 Matrix Resurrections Looks Awesome! 9 Uses for Computer Graphics 12 Traffic Animation Training Navigation Movies Art History Simulation TV Games Advertising Cartoons Architecture Commercials Cartography Keanu Reeves walking through a flexible mirror. City Planning Planning Biology Education December 22?? Scientific Styling Design Visualization Chemistry We need to wait until December 22? Data Amusement Parks Visualization Medicine Manufacturing Land Use Construction Management Veterinarian Computer Graphics Computer Graphics Science mjb – September 9, 2021 mjb – September 9, 2021 9 12 2.