#ivan sutherland

1-2 walter pichler 1967

3 hugo gernsback 1936

Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer gra...

“Sketchpad need not be applied only to engine~ring drawings. The ability to put motion into the drawings suggests that it would be exciting to try making cartoons."

“For example, the girl "Nefertite" shown in Figure 9.8 can be made to wink by changing which of the three types of eyes is.placed in position on her otherwise eyeless face. Doing this on the computer's display has amused many visitors.”

“Aside from its economics as a teaching or amusement device, cartooning can bring the insights which are the prime value of Sketchpad drawings. The girl seen in Figure 9.9 was traced from a photograph. into the Sketchpad system”.

“In refitting the features to the blank face we discovered that,although.the original girl was a sweet looking miss, an entirely different character appears if her mouth is made larger as in Figure 9.10. Using a computer to partially automate an artistic process has brought me, a non-artist, some understanding of the effect of certain features on the appearance of a face. It is the understanding that can be gained from computer drawings that is more valuable than mere production of a drawing for shop use”. 

The Ultimate Display (1965)

In 1965, a computer scientist named Ivan Sutherland envisioned what he called the “Ultimate Display.” Ivan E. Sutherland We live in a physical world whose properties we have come to know well through long familiarity. We sense an involvement with this physical world which gives us the ability to predict its properties well. For example, we can predict where objects will fall, how well-known…