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4 unusual facts about computer graphics


David Tai Bornoff

David accepted an offer to complete high school at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where he took early classes in Computer graphics and became the youngest Graphics editor of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Digital Monster X-Evolution

Digital Monster X-Evolution is also the first and, so far, only Digimon movie to be done entirely in CG (CG animation by Imagi Animation Studios), as well as the only Digimon movie not related to one of the Digimon anime series.

Image Space Incorporated

computer game development, man-in-the-loop simulator architectures, computer image generation, and entertainment systems integration.

Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires

Research topics span from theoretical computer science, such as Formal languages, Formal methods, or more mathematically-oriented topics such as Information theory, optimization, Complex system... to application-driven topics like Bioinformatics, image and video compression, Handwriting recognition, Computer graphics, Medical imaging, Content-based image retrieval...


Adaptive tile refresh

Adaptive Tile Refresh is a computer graphics technique for sidescrolling games, invented by id Software's John Carmack to compensate for the poor graphics performance of PCs in the early 1990s.

Atlas Computer Laboratory

The Atlas Computer Laboratory made important contributions to systems software including operating systems, compilers, computer graphics, and networking.

Big Buck Bunny

Improvements were made in hair and fur rendering, the particle system, UV mapping, shading, the render pipeline, constraints, and skinning.

CIIT College of Arts and Technology

CIIT - Philippines College of Arts and Technology, formerly Cosmopoint International Institute of Technology, is a private, non-sectarian college in the Philippines that offers specialized and industry-based learning in the fields of multimedia arts, computer graphics, 3D animation, game development, software engineering, and information technology.

Core OpenGL

Renderers may be either hardware based, such that they correspond to graphics cards installed in the system or they may be software based, where the main CPU of the system handles all of the graphics command processing and final rasterization work.

Cornerstone of Peace

The Centre for the Study of Pacific War Memories at the University of California Santa Cruz is developing a visualization project in order to reproduce virtually the Cornerstone of Peace while making use of recently declassified photographs from the archives of the Department of Defense.

Craig Barron

Matte World Digital was the first in the industry to apply radiosity rendering to film in Martin Scorsese’s Casino.

Domestos

In 2005, various commercials for different Domestos brands were shown on British television, with computer generated germs made to represent Salmonella, E.Coli and Staphylococcus.

GenesisIV

GenesisIV is a photorealistic landscape renderer program made by Geomantics Ltd. of Balquhidder, Scotland.

Island of Kesmai

It was based on a slightly stripped down version of Island of Kesmai with 2D sprites replacing IoK's roguelike pseudo-graphics, and was available for play at America Online and GameStorm.

Jollification

Mark Farrow's album cover featured the use of computer graphics to create an enormous strawberry and depicting seeds with superimposed human faces.

Miao Xiaochun

Other works include computer graphics installations such as The Last Judgement in Cyberspace, a 3D monochrome reworking of Michelangelo's The Last Judgment from the Sistine Chapel replacing every figure with a virtual model of Miao himself.

NUMAlink

NUMAlink 2 (branded as CrayLink) was the second generation of the interconnect, announced in October 1996 and used in the Onyx2 visualization systems, the Origin 200 and the Origin 2000 servers and supercomputers.

Robert L. Cook

Robert L. Cook (December 10, 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software.

Silpheed

The Mega-CD port of Silpheed features polygon ships over a pre-rendered video background; this method is also seen in other video game titles, such as Namco's StarBlade in 1991, Sony Imagesoft's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, and Micronet's A/X-101 in 1994 for the Mega-CD.

Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice

Created by Craig Reynolds and others at Symbolics Graphics Division in 1986, the film was intended to portray the capabilities of the boids artificial life program.

True Remembrance

The text is accompanied by a still background, sprites of the characters in the foreground, whose expressions change during conversations but are not animated in any other way, music and sound.

Video Chess

For example, Atari had to overcome sprite limitations; the Atari 2600 was only capable of displaying three sprites in a row, or six (such as in Space Invaders) with the right programming.


see also

Ada, Ohio

John Berton, award-winning computer graphics animator and visual effects supervisor.

Alexander Schure

Schure was an early champion of computer animation; in 1979 Catmull left to form a computer-graphics group with Lucasfilm and the core technical team- including computer animation pioneers Alvy Ray Smith, David DiFrancesco, Ralph Guggenheim, Jim Blinn, and Jim Clark- came from the NYIT lab.

Alias Systems Corporation

Wavefront Technologies founders Bill Kovacs and Roy A. Hall received a 1997 Academy Award for the creative leadership (Kovacs) and the principal engineering (Hall) efforts that led to the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system.

Antics 2-D Animation

In 1972, Kitching met artist Colin Emmett, who was already experimenting with computer graphics at the Royal College of Art, using computers at Imperial College, London, and the Atlas Computer Laboratory near Oxford.

Bendix G-15

He would later become famous for his work in computer graphics and for starting up Evans & Sutherland with Ivan Sutherland.

Blended wing body

-- mention the artist names since Neill Blomkamp is a noteworthy artist e.g. District 9 --> from The Embassy Visual Effects created the photo for the magazine using computer graphics software to depict the future of aviation and air travel.

Blit

BLock Image Transfer, a computer graphics operation in which two bitmap patterns are combined

Boolean operations on polygons

Boolean operations on polygons are a set of Boolean operations (AND, OR, NOT, XOR, ...) operating on one or more sets of polygons in computer graphics.

Cooke Glacier

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Kirsten Cooke Healey, of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a computer graphics specialist from the mid-1990s onwards for the USGS project that is compiling the Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers and 25 Glaciological and Coastal-Change Maps of Antarctica.

Dayle

Dayle Dodge (born 1955), American writer, 3D Computer Graphics Artist and Sculptor

DSK Supinfocom International Campus

Supinfocom (école SUPérieure d'INFOrmatique de COMmunication, roughly University of Communication Science) is a computer graphics university with campuses in Valenciennes, Arles(France) and Pune (India).

Fast inverse square root

The algorithm was originally attributed to John Carmack, but an investigation showed that the code had deeper roots in both the hardware and software side of computer graphics.

Florence Foresti

She had a few other jobs, including working for EDF in Lyon, before finally becoming a computer graphics artist.

GART

Graphics address remapping table, a memory management unit used in computer graphics cards

GraphiCon

The conference is hosted by Moscow State University in association with Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Center of Computing for Physics and Technology, and the Russian Computer Graphics Society.

Hans-Peter Seidel

Hans-Peter Seidel is a computer graphics researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and Saarland University.

JGT

Journal of Graphics Tools, a peer-reviewed research journal that focuses on computer graphics

John Knoll

Knoll was also the Computer Graphics Project Designer on The Abyss, an achievement which earned ILM its tenth Academy Award for Visual Effects, and worked on two Star Trek episodes - Star Trek: The Next Generations pilot episode ("Encounter at Farpoint") and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Explorers".

K-ID

After two years of training in Montpellier in Audiovisual, K-ID creates in 2009 his structure “Oracle Vision Future” specialised in video production, computer graphics, event and artists management.

Lensman: Secret of The Lens

Computer Graphics: New York Institute of Technology, Nanajima Center, Century Research Center, Optical Imaging Research Center

Light field

In computer graphics, this vector-valued function of 3D space is called the vector irradiance field (Arvo, 1994).

Light-field camera

Lytro was founded by Stanford University Computer Graphics Laboratory alumnus Ren Ng to commercialize the light-field camera he developed as a graduate student there.

Marc Levoy

Greenberg and he suggested to Disney that they use computer graphics in producing animated films, but the idea was rejected by several of the Nine Old Men who were still active.

Oliver Bimber

In 2009, Bimber was appointed professor at Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, where he became head of the Institute of Computer Graphics.

Scalable Link Interface

SLI is an application of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics.

School of Advertising Art

As it is a graphic design college, all students are required to use their own Macintosh laptop computers using the leading provided computer graphics software, such as Adobe Systems's Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and InDesign; .

Skia

Skia Graphics Engine, a software library that supports computer graphics operations

Supinfocom

Supinfocom (école SUPérieure d'INFOrmatique de COMmunication, roughly University of Communication Science) is a computer graphics university with campuses in Valenciennes, Arles (France) and Pune (India).

Texture

Texture mapping, bitmap image applied to a surface in computer graphics

Vatti

Vatti clipping algorithm, a computer graphics algorithm used in clipping arbitrary polygons

Wireframe

Wire-frame model, visual model of a three dimensional object in computer graphics

Zebra stripe

Zebra striping, a diagnostic shading technique used in computer graphics