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Unity University

College of Computational Sciences, Engineering and Technology


Department of Computer Science
Computer Graphics (COSC363)

History of Computer Graphics


Ivan Sutherland (1963) - SKETCHPAD

 Pop-up menus
 Constraint-based Drawing
 Hierarchical modeling

Display Hardware
Vector displays
 1963 – modified oscilloscope
 1974 – Evans and Sutherland Picture System
Raster displays
 1975 – Evans and Sutherland frame buffer
 1980s – cheap frame buffers ? bit-mapped personal computers
 1990s – liquid-crystal displays ? laptops
 2000s – micro-mirror projectors ? digital cinema
Other
 stereo, head-mounted displays
 autostereoscopic displays
 tactile, haptic, sound

Input hardware
2D
 light pen, tablet, mouse, joystick, track ball, touch panel, etc.
 1970s & 80s - CCD analog image sensor + frame grabber
 1990s & 2000’s - CMOS digital sensor + in-camera processing
 ? high-X imaging (dynamic range, resolution, depth of field,…)

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negative film = 130:1(7 stops)
paper prints = 46:1
[ Debevec97] = 250,000:1 (18 stops )

Input hardware
2D
 light pen, tablet, mouse, joystick, track ball, touch panel, etc.
 1970s & 80s - CCD analog image sensor + frame grabber
 1990s & 2000’s - CMOS digital sensor + in-camera processing
 ? high-X imaging (dynamic range, resolution, depth of field,…)
3D
 3 D trackers
 multiple cameras
 active rangefinders
other
 data gloves
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 voice

Rendering
1960s - the visibility problem

 Roberts (1963), Appel (1967) - hidden-line algorithms


 Warnock (1969), Watkins (1970) - hidden-surface algorithms
 Sutherland (1974) – visibility = soring

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1960s - the visibility problem
(1967) - hidden-
- -surface algorithms

1970s - raster graphics


 Gouraud (1971) - diffuse lighting
 Phong (1974) - specular lighting
 Blinn (1974) - curved surfaces, texture
 Catmull (1974) - Z-buffer hidden-surface algorithm
 Crow (1977) - anti-aliasing

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1960s -
– Roberts (1963), - hidden-line algorithms
hidden-surface algorithms
-

1970s - raster graphics


 Phong (1974) - specular lighting
 Blinn (1974) - curved surfaces, texture
 Catmull (1974) - Z-buffer hidden-surface algorithm
 Crow (1977) - anti-aliasing
Early 1980s - global illumination
 Whitted (1980) - ray tracing
 Goral, Torrance et al. (1984), Cohen (1985) - radiosity
 Kajiya (1986) - the rendering equation
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– -

Late 1980s - Photorealism


 Cook (1984) - shade trees
 Perlin (1985) - shading languages
 Hanrahan and Lawson (1990) - RenderMan
 early 1990s - non-photorealistic rendering
 Drebin et al. (1988), Levoy (1988) - volume rendering
 Haeberli (1990) - impressionistic paint programs
 Salesin et al. (1994-) - automatic pen-and-ink illustration
 Meier (1996) – painterly rendering
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Early 1990s - non-photorealistic rendering
 Drebin et al. (1988), Levoy (1988) - volume rendering
 Haeberli (1990) - impressionistic paint programs
 Salesin et al (1994) – automatic pen-and-ink illustration

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 Meier (1996) – painterly rendering

The Graphics Pipeline

Modeling Animation Rendering


Modeling
Polygons
Constructive solid geometry
Parametric surfaces
Implicit surfaces
Subdivision surfaces
Particle systems
Volumes
Animation
Scripted
Key-frame interpolation
Inverse kinematics
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Dynamics
The graphics pipeline
The traditional pipeline

Modeling Animation Rendering

The new pipeline

3D Motion Image-based
Scanning capture rendering
Early 1990s - non-photorealistic rendering
 Drebin et al. (1988), Levoy (1988) - volume rendering
 Haeberli (1990) - impressionistic paint programs
 Salesin et al. (1994-) - automatic pen-and-ink illustration
 Meier (1996) - painterly rendering
Late 1990s - image-based rendering
 Chen and Williams (1993) - view interpolation
 McMillan and Bishop (1995) - plenoptic modeling
 Levoy and Hanrahan (1996) - light field rendering

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