CGI (Computer Graphic Industry) The Timeline

January 10, 2008 — simonbenjaminbygraves

Brief Timeline History:

1960’s:

Initial experimentation with 3D graphics
Key figures Charles Csuri & John Whitney Sr

1970’s:

Many animation & rendering algorithms used today were developed in the 1970’s
Image & Bump textures developed
Hand & face animation improved
First use of 3D CGI in movies

1980’s:

Raytracing rendering developed
Video became most common output method for animation
Luxo Jr (Pixar 1985) was the first computer generated animation up for an academy award

1990’s & 2000’s:

Notable success of 3D CG imagery in Harry Potter & Lord of The Rings
Games developement grows with the release of many game consoles such as Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Gamecube/Wii

—————————————————————————————– 1960’s:

CGI (Computer Graphic Industry) has come a long way since the 1960’s. John Whitney Sr founded the company Motions Graphic inc in the 60’s. Spacewars was the first game created and developed by Steve Russell

<——– Space Wars

the first CGI use for commercials MAGI for IBM. GUI (Graphic User Interface) was developed by Xeron.

——————————————————————————————1970’s:

Lillian Schwartz produces pixellation at Bell Labs (Pixellation is an effect caused by displaying a bitmap section at a large size that individual pixels that comprise the bitmap)

The Intel 4004 4-bit processor was introduced. it was the considered to be the worlds first commerical single chip microprocessor. it could execute 60,000 instructions per second

<—— Intel 4004 4-bit processor

Many animation and rendering algorithms used today were developed

The 8″ floppy disc was created by IBM—————>

(The floppy disc was in many formats 5.25″ & also 3.5″. its been enjoyed for many years but but now thay are becoming less popular because of the introduction of the flash drives )

Hand in face animation improved

The @symbol was introduced and selected for e-mail address by BBN (Bolt Beranek & Newman)

The C was introduced by Ritchie (Dennis)

The Intel 8008 8- bit processor was created it was an early microprocessor designed & manufactured by Intel. It could execute 500000 instruction per second.

Intel 8oo8 8- bit processor ——————>

The video game Pong was developed for Atari , Atari produced many versions of the game pong with some of the games having more than 1 game on it, also that had updated versions where u could have a maximun 4 players on some of the games.