reading/watching

• • recommended

    • Machover, C.  "Four decades of computer graphics," Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE , vol.14, no.6, pp.14-19, Nov. 1994 (ncsu)

    • Whitted, T. Keynote at Pioneer dinner, SIGGRAPH 2011.

  • optional

    • Wayne E. Carlson. (2017). Computer Graphics and Computer Animation: A Retrospective Overview.

    • John Warnock. (2010). Adobe co-founder John Warnock on the competitive advantages of aesthetics and the ‘right’ technology. Knowledge @ Wharton.

    • Jon Peddie. (2013). The history of visual magic in computers how beautiful images are made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR. Springer. (ncsu)

videos

• • On Jack Bresenham's work (1962+)

  • Ivan Sutherland demos Sketchpad in 1965 (1, 2)

  • Doug Engelbart demos the mouse in 1968

    • Here is the same demo, with annotations

  • Jim Blinn's animation for JPL/NASA

  • Turner Whitted reflects in 2011

  • Warnock reflects

  • On Brunellesci's development of perspective  

  • Interview of Jim Blinn

sites

• • Carlson's history of computer graphics

  • An online history of computer graphics

  • Nick England's notes on NC State graphics lab in EE

  • A video index