Computer Graphics History - Misc. Notes

Please send me e-mail with additional info, links, photos, corrections, etc.- my memory is fuzzy!
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS!
Last update - 11 December 2023  
Nick England, Chapel Hill NC, USA

• Early Computer Graphics Research Labs - I need more info!

• Early Computer Graphics & Imaging Hardware - including research projects and commercial hardware

• Links to More Graphics History Info

• Some Computer Graphics Posters from the 1980s.

So far I have concentrated on U.S. development simply because I am most familiar with it. 
Please send links or info on early development work and products elsewhere.

Additional Resources

Some other computer graphics/imaging history references - in no particular order. 

• "Graphics Remembrances" -  multiple authors, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (Volume: 20 , Issue: 2 , Apr-Jun 1998) - link
• IEEE Tutorial: Computer Graphics Hardware : Image Generation and Display
  1988, Hassan K. Reghbati, Anson Y. C. Lee, IEEE Computer Society Press - amazon
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• Ted Nelson's files - graphics and imaging hardware/software
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• 1966 Computer Display Review - Adams Associates - PDF
• 1970 Computer Display Review - Adams Associates - PDF
• 1976 Image Processing System Survey (C.L. Patterson, Aerospace Corp.)
• 1976 Taxonomy of Display Processors - reference
• 1980 Graphics System Survey ( Pete Atherton, GE)
• David Weisberg's CAD history that includes lots of info on early computer graphics history - archived version
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• Carl Machover collection at Charles Babbage Institute - see Exploring The Archives on page 13
• Carl Machover (1967) "Graphic CRT Terminals: Characteristics of Commonly Available Equipment"- PDF - reference
• Carl Machover (1968) "State of the Computer Graphics Art in the United States" - PDF
• Carl Machover (1969) Computer Graphics in the United States. In: Parslow R.D., Prowse R.W., Green R.E. (eds) Computer Graphics. Springer, Boston, MA reference
• Carl Machover (1972) "Computer Graphics Terminals - A Backward Look" - PDF - reference
• Carl Machover (1986) A New Generation of Hardware. In: Enderle G., Grave M., Lillehagen F. (eds) Advances in Computer Graphics I. EurographicSeminars (Tutorials and Perspectives in Computer Graphics). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg - reference
• Carl Machover "A Brief Personal History of Computer Graphics" 
  http://excelsior.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~carlson/history/PDFs/machover.pdf 
• Carl Machover interview - transcript
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• Wayne Carlson (OSU) review of hardware
  http://excelsior.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~carlson/history/lesson15.html 
• Wayne Carlson History Course
  http://excelsior.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~carlson/history/ 
• Jon Peddie - "History of Visual Magic in Computers" - (games/animation-centric)
  http://www.amazon.com/History-Visual-Magic-Computers-Beautiful/dp/1447149319 
• Terrence Masson "CG 101, A Computer Graphics Industry Reference" - (fx/art/animation-centric)
  (chapter 8 - historically significant companies) http://www.cg101.com/cg101.com.html 
• Alvy Ray Smith - A Biography of the Pixel
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• Norman I. Badler and Ingrid Carlbom, "The Computer Graphics Scene in the United States", EUROGRAPHICS '84. Proceedings of the European Graphics Conference and Exhibition , 185-200. September 1985. - pdf
• Badler N.I., Carlbom I. (1986) Overview of Raster Graphics Hardware. In: Enderle G., Grave M., Lillehagen F. (eds) Advances in Computer Graphics I. EurographicSeminars (Tutorials and Perspectives in Computer Graphics). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg - reference
• W. Myers, "Staking Out the Graphics Display Pipeline," in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 60-65, July 1984.
  doi: 10.1109/MCG.1984.275904 - reference
• W. M. Newman, Trends in Graphic Display Design, IEEE Transactions on Computers, v.25 n.12, p.1321-1325, December 1976 - reference
• Henry Fuchs, VLSI in Graphics Systems - PDF
• 1969 "Selected Bibliography of On-Line Visual Displays and Their Applications" - PDF
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• Nelson H. F. Beebe's Bibliographies of many graphics magazines and journals
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• "S Klein Computer Graphics Newsletter" (Stanley Klein)
• "The Anderson Report" - newsletter (Ken Anderson) - July 1981 issue
• "Real Time Graphics" newsletter (Roy Latham)
• IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications magazine
• SPIE conferences on Image Processing Systems
• Many cardboard boxes of stuff I have in storage!

• Note 1 - get access to SIGGRAPH publications in the ACM Digital Library by joining SIGGRAPH
• Note 2 - papers for the first SIGGRAPH conference (Boulder, 1974) were not published by ACM.
  The papers were published in the first two issues of Computers & Graphics.
  • Vol 1 no 1 - table of contents,    full text
  • Vol 1 no 2/3 - table of contents,    full text