β Scribed by Samuel M. Matsa (auth.), R. D. Parslow, R. W. Prowse, R. Elliot Green (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
About four or five years ago one began to hear about the enormous interest being taken in on-line consoles and displays. Nothing much was done with them, but computer men felt that this was the way computing ought to go: one might dispense with cards, and overcome many of the problems of man-machine communication. It quickly appeared that, as with computers, there had been a great underΒ estimation of the amount of work involved, of the difficulties of programming, and of the cost. So it began to emerge that graphics was not the ultimate answer, in spite of superb demonstrations where one might watch a square being converted into a cube and then rotated. But my mind goes back to 1951 and the first computers. There, there were demonstrations of arithmetic speed and storage facility; but not much idea of actual use. However, we now understand how to use computers, and in the last year or two, significant developments in the field of graphics have led to genuine applications, and economic benefits. The equipment is still expensive, but it is becoming cheaper, more uses are being found, and f believe that we are just at the stage when the subject is gaining momentum, to become, like computers, a field of immense importance.
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages xv-xv
What Has Computer Graphics to Offer?....Pages 1-6
Computer Graphics Hardware Techniques....Pages 7-15
Computer Graphics Software Techniques....Pages 17-27
Interactive Software Techniques....Pages 29-39
Computer Display System Tradeoffs....Pages 41-59
Computer Graphics in the United States....Pages 61-83
The U.K. Scene....Pages 85-89
Low Cost Graphics....Pages 91-97
Remote Display Terminals....Pages 99-107
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
Graphical Computer Aided Programming Systems....Pages 109-117
Alphanumeric Terminals for Management Information....Pages 119-123
Computer Graphics Used for Architectural Design and Costing....Pages 125-133
Graphical Output in a Research Establishment....Pages 135-140
Appendix to Graphical Output in a Research Establishment....Pages 141-148
High Energy Physics Applications....Pages 149-159
Mechanical Design Using Graphics....Pages 161-167
Electronic Design Using Graphics....Pages 169-177
Man-Machine Co-operation on a Learning Task....Pages 179-186
Some Hardware, Software and Applications Problems....Pages 187-206
Front Matter....Pages N2-N2
Present-day Computer Graphics Research....Pages 207-216
Back Matter....Pages N3-233
Computer Graphics; Science, general
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