Chapter 3


Computer Graphics History Resources

A Brief History of Computer Graphics
https://deseng.ryerson.ca/dokuwiki/mec222:brief_history_of_computer_graphics

Fantastic Resource from the COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-graphics-music-and-art/15/intro


CRT Technology

CRT for Broadcast History:
https://www.itu.int/itunews/manager/display.asp?lang=en&year=2006&issue=03&ipage=pioneers&ext=html


Early Television History


Television Character Generators


Early Video Games

Tennis for Two

SpaceWar!

SpaceWar! is played about 13 minutes into the following video, but the entire clip has some great computer history.

PONG
Game play:
https://youtu.be/fiShX2pTz9A

History:
http://www.pongmuseum.com/history/


Pioneers of Computer Art

The Digital Arts Museum
https://dam.org/museum/artists/phase_1/

Ben F. Laposky
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3260

Lillian Schwartz
https://vimeo.com/56480534
http://lillian.com/films/

Ken Knowlton
https://www.kenknowlton.com/

A. Michael Noll
http://noll.uscannenberg.org/

Historical Figures in Generative Art — A. Michael Noll by Druid
*This writer has a number of great articles on the topic of Generative Art Pioneers.

John Whitney
https://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.5/2.5pages/2.5moritzwhitney.html

The following clip includes a great discussion of the computer capabilities, real-time vs computer time and render time

Paik Nam June
https://www.paikstudios.com/


The Computer Image

https://thesassway.com/what-is-an-image-in-computer-science/

https://thesassway.com/what-does-image-mean-computer-science/


Generative Content Creation

Chromata by Michael Bromley
https://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/experiments/chromata/

Fluid Experiment by George Corney
http://haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/

Biomes by Marpi Studio
https://demo.marpi.pl/biomes/

Particle Love by Edan Kwan
https://particle-love.com/

Crayon Codes
https://openprocessing.org/crayon

The examples at the three.js homepage
https://threejs.org/


Game Engines for Film Previs