We looked at the development of Computer graphics and how they
have been used in animation. The first
computer to create computer graphics was the Whirlwind. The Whirlwind was
originally designed to track enemy movements during the war, they had radar
that would send signals to the computer that would produce real time images. The
Whirlwind computer was developed in 1951 and was the first computer to use RAM(
random access memory).
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| here is an image of the computer Whirlwind and some workers operating the machine |
The Next thing we looked at was the Sketchpad which was developed
in 1963 by Ivan Sutherland. The Sketchpad is a computer program that allowed the
user to draw on a computer using a light pen.
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| image of the light pen and sketchpad being used |
We also looked at the first game Space Wars that was created
by Steve Russell a student from MIT that Ivan Sutherland also part of.
Here is video about the first video game Space Wars
