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2D computer graphics started in the 1950s, based on vector graphics devices. These were largely supplanted by raster-based devices in the following decades.
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The Whirlwind computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first computer with a video display of real time data.
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The Apple II is the first graphics personal computer.
Star Wars is released; its only computer effects were vector-based, and then filmed.
CADAM, the first commercial 2D CAD package, is released.
McDonnell Douglas buys United Computing, forming Unigraphics. -
Toy Story, the first fully CGI movie, is released.
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Final Fantasy movie is released.
Rendering tears and water are now possible; the movement of hair still un-renderable.
EDS buys SDRC; Unigraphics and I-deas CAD packages merged to for NX.
