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                        HISTORY OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS

           Excepted from the book, "Becoming a Computer Animator"
                            by Michael Morrison

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                                Introduction

              Pixar | Disney | Toy Story | Beauty and the Beast

 Ed Catmull | Ralph Guggenheim | John Lasseter | William Reeves | Renderman

   Advances of the 1960s | Advances of the 1970s | Advances of the 1980s |
                            Advances of the 1990s

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    Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) opened in August 1957 in Maynard,
   Massachusetts. With only three employees they had 8,500 square feet of
  production space in a converted woolen mill. Lawn chairs made up most of
 their furniture but in November 1960 they introduced the PDP-1 (Programmed
 Data Processor) the world's first small, interactive computer. Thirty years
later, Digital would post Fiscal revenues of $12.9 billion with over 124,000
  employees worldwide. Along the way, Digital would play important roles in
                     the progress of computer graphics.

    In 1959 the first computer drawing system, DAC-1 (Design Augmented by
  Computers) was created by General Motors and IBM. It allowed the user to
 input a 3D description of an automobile and then rotate it and view it from
  different directions. It was unveiled at the Joint Computer Conference in
                              Detroit in 1964.

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