Computer graphics and traditional painting techniques

Direct painting[ edit ] A convenient way to create a complex image is to start with a blank "canvas" raster map an array of pixelsalso known as a bitmap filled with some uniform background color and then "draw", "paint" or "paste" simple patches of color onto it, in an appropriate order.

Introduction[ edit ] The precursor sciences to the development of modern computer graphics were the advances in electrical engineeringelectronicsand television that took place during the first half of the twentieth century.

The first cathode ray tubethe Braun tubewas invented in - it in turn would permit the oscilloscope and the military control panel - the more direct precursors of the field, as they provided the first two-dimensional electronic displays that responded to programmatic or user input.

New kinds of displays were needed to process the wealth of information resulting from such projects, leading to the development of computer graphics as a discipline.

Ross of the Whirlwind SAGE system performed a personal experiment in which a small program he wrote captured the movement of his finger and displayed its vector his traced name on a display scope.

One of the first interactive video games to feature recognizable, interactive graphics — Tennis for Two — was created for an oscilloscope by William Higinbotham to entertain visitors in at Brookhaven National Laboratory and simulated a tennis match.

InDouglas T. Ross innovated again while working at MIT on transforming mathematic statements into computer generated 3D machine tool vectors by taking the opportunity to create a display scope image of a Disney cartoon character.

The field of computer graphics developed with the emergence of computer graphics hardware. Further advances in computing led to greater advancements in interactive computer graphics. The TX-2 integrated a number of new man-machine interfaces. The light pen itself had a small photoelectric cell in its tip.

By simply timing the electronic pulse with the current location of the electron gun, it was easy to pinpoint exactly where the pen was on the screen at any given moment.

Once that was determined, the computer could then draw a cursor at that location. Sutherland seemed to find the perfect solution for many of the graphics problems he faced.

Even today, many standards of computer graphics interfaces got their start with this early Sketchpad program. One example of this is in drawing constraints.

If one wants to draw a square for example, they do not have to worry about drawing four lines perfectly to form the edges of the box. One can simply specify that they want to draw a box, and then specify the location and size of the box.

The software will then construct a perfect box, with the right dimensions and at the right location. In other words, with a model of a car, one could change the size of the tires without affecting the rest of the car.

It could stretch the body of car without deforming the tires. Fetter has said that the terms were actually given to him by Verne Hudson of the Wichita Division of Boeing. Zajac, a scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratory BTLcreated a film called "Simulation of a two-giro gravity attitude control system" in He created the animation on an IBM mainframe computer.

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Computer graphics are pictures and films created using computers. Usually, the term refers to computer-generated image data created with the help of specialized graphical hardware and software.

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