Computer Graphics

Computer Graphics

IS 490
SPECIAL TOPICS
May 6, 1996

Table of Contents
Introduction 3
How It Was 3
How It All Began 4
Times Were Changing 6
Industry's First Attempts 7
The Second Wave 10
How the Magic is Made 11
Modeling 12
Animation 13
Rendering 13
Conclusion 15
Bibliography 16

Introduction

Hollywood has gone digital, and the old ways of doing things are dying. Animation and
special effects created with computers have been embraced by television networks,
advertisers, and movie studios alike. Film editors, who for decades worked by painstakingly
cutting and gluing film segments together, are now sitting in front of computer screens.
There, they edit entire features while adding sound that is not only stored digitally, but
also has been created and manipulated with computers. Viewers are witnessing the results of
all this in the form of stories and experiences that they never dreamed of before. Perhaps
the most surprising aspect of all this, however, is that the entire digital effects and
animation industry is still in its infancy. The future looks bright. How It Was

In the beginning, computer graphics were as cumbersome and as hard to control as dinosaurs
must have been in their own time. Like dinosaurs, the hardware systems, or muscles, of
early computer graphics were huge and ungainly. The machines often filled entire buildings.
Also like dinosaurs, the software programs or...

Computer Graphics

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