HISTORY OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS

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“Founder of Geometry”
Euclid
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Video Graphics Array (VGA) was invented at?
IBM
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Who presented Sketchpad?
Ivan Sutherland
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It became a primary method for generating animation sequences.
Motion Capture
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It is a precursor to virtual reality and was invented at NASA.
DataGlove
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He introduced parametric surfaces and developed early computer aided geometric design concepts.
Steve Coons
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He started exploring fractals in computer graphics.
Loren Carpenter
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It became popular as advanced workstation in the mid 80’s.
Sunwork Stations
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It was the high-end graphics computer in the early 70’s.
Evans & Sutherland Picture System
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He was noted for his use of perspective.
Filippo Brunelleschi
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Who developed a “paint” program SuperPaint?
Xerox PARC
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It was introduced by the Greenberg and folks at Cornell.
Radiosity
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It supported real- time raster line drawing and later polygons became the computer graphicists desired.
Silicon Graphics workstations
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It became the first commercial successes for personal computing.
Apple I and II computers
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He pointed out the usefulness of homogeneous coordinates, matrices and hidden line detection algorithms.
Larry Roberts
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It was discovered by Henri Gouraud and Bui Tuong Phong at the University of Utah.
Rendering (shading)
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It was marketed by Adobe.
Photoshop
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They co-invented calculus that allow us to describe dynamical systems.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton
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He developed recursive ray tracing and it became the standard for photorealism.
Turner Whitted
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He developed hidden surface and shadow algorithms that were pre-cursors to ray tracing.
Arthur Appel
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They build the ENIAC computer.
John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly
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He introduced stochastic sampling to ray tracing.
Steve Cook
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Who produced the Reality Engine?
Silicon Graphics
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When did the Apple Macintosh started production?
1984
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He invented matrix notation.
James Joseph Sylvester
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He taught us how to draw lines on a raster device.
Jack Bresenham
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Who developed Postscript?
John Warnock
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Laser printers were invented at?
Xerox PARC
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He developed analytic geometry.
René Descartes
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When was the IBM PC was marketed?
1981
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Who discovered splines?
Isaac Schoenberg
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When was “Sketchpad” presented?
1963
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He introduced parametric patch rendering, the z-buffer algorithm, and texture mapping.
Edwin Earl Catmull
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He introduces blobby models and texture mapping concepts
Jim Blinn
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It made PCs almost as powerful as workstations.
Pentium Chipset
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When was PC Graphics cards introduced?
Later in the 90’s
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It was the mainframe (mini) computer of choice.
DEC VAX computer
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An 8-bit computer was invented at?
Intel
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Who introduced the Alto Personal Computer?
Xerox PARC