Early computers devoid of graphical interfaces performed the exacting calculations necessary to design the atomic bomb, but they proved less than optimal for trading pictures of kittens. Early ...

"The CG Story" is a lavish and engaging tour through the history of computer graphics If you have any interest in computer graphics and animation at all I have a book you’ll love: “ The CG Story: ...

With computer graphics that are so good that you might not even notice them, it's easy to forget just how far we've come. That's where the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California comes in ...

I was only a few pages into Alvy Ray Smith’s new book, A Biography of the Pixel, when I realized that all of my preconceptions about what it might be were wrong. A legend of computer graphics, Smith ...

Now that electronics control our lives, the Museum of the Moving Image will present a three-day series about films from the Good Old Days, when science fiction trumped computer science. Seven sessions ...

Description: This course provides an introduction to and a survey of the discipline of computer graphics. The topics include a survey of the applications of computer graphics, the knowledge base and ...

Visual effects artist Sydney Padua was sitting in a London pub when she began drawing a “comic” about the mathematician Ada Lovelace, who in 1843 annotated a report on Charles Babbage’s idea for a ...

Have you have ever looked at a fantastic science fiction movie, an amazingly complex computer game or a TV commercial where cars behaved liked people and wondered, "How do they do that?" You can now ...

This video (above) from Ahoy is the third in a series of five covering the history of graphics in games. Each video is eight or nine minutes long and tackles a specific period of innovation: in this ...

Whose stories get to be told? Yale professors address the racial bias ingrained in the algorithms that depict humans in computer graphics. According to Yale professor of computer science Theodore Kim, ...