Victor Acevedo

Committee Member:

• SIGGRAPH 2003: CG03: Computer Graphics 2003

Custom Committee:

• SIGGRAPH 2003: CG03: Computer Graphics 2003

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: Why Digital Prints Matter
  Writing Type: Essay
  Author(s):
  • Victor Acevedo
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2003: CG03: Computer Graphics 2003
  Abstract Summary:

  In the beginning(s) was the digital image.

  It has been established that “computer art” started approximately in 1950 with Ben Laposky’s oscilloscope images, which he generated with analog electronics and then recorded onto high-speed film. This event occurred in the wake of the then-recent developments of the first electronic digital computers: a machine built by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry in 1941 and then the well known Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first major general purpose computer, introduced in 1946. Completed in 1951, the Whirlwind Computer was the very first to be equipped with a (vector scope) video display monitor. A “bouncing ball” animation was actually produced to demo this feature.

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