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 ...

Up until just over 30 years ago, when the desktop computer debuted, the whole design production process would have been done primarily by hand, and with the aide of analog machines. The design and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The conference's humble beginnings started as a small gathering of computer graphics enthusiasts. SIGGRAPH has grown globally, with annual conferences in North America and Asia, drawing attendees from ...

Nvidia said it “reinvented computer graphics” with the unveiling of its Nvidia Turing graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture. The architecture will be the foundation for a whole family of future ...