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Early PC graphics were wild: A look back at the pre-GPU era

IBM was a big player in the early days of personal computing. In 1981, IBM introduced the "PC," followed by the PC-XT in 1983 ...
The Verge

Relive 80s sci-fi in pictures with ‘Creative Computer Graphics’

Relive the 1980s with a book that looks at some excellent, decades-old computer graphics. Relive the 1980s with a book that looks at some excellent, decades-old computer graphics.
Gizmodo

Sleek Thermos Is a Tribute To Cutting-Edge 1980s Computer Graphics

When computer graphics was in its infancy—well before CG dinosaurs appeared—a simple 3D model of a teapot was used for testing software and new rendering techniques. And the simple lines of Normann ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Resurrecting the Dead With Computer Graphics

Marilyn Monroe getting ready for her close-up in a movie of the future March, 1994 Popular Mechanics A couple of weeks ago audiences at the Coachella music festival got to see Tupac perform live (NSFW ...
Texarkana Gazette

Ken Knowlton, a father of computer art and animation, dies at 91

Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies, died ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Pioneer of Graphic Adventure Games Was a Woman

An undated photo of video-game pioneer Roberta Williams during the early days of Sierra On-Line, the company she and her husband founded. Courtesy Ken Williams “You are in the front yard of a large ...