Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Timeline of Computer Graphics

Learning CAD, as well as other mechanical drawing systems has piqued my interest in the history of computer visualization. It's pretty cool to see how different disciplines use drawing and visual thinking. The gap between, say, engineering and art-making is the presence, or definition of problem solving. If there is problem solving in art (Duchamp claimed there wasn't), the artist solves problems on the way to somewhere else. For technologists, solutions are endpoints.

1966, Head Mounted Display
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