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Ben Laposky created the first graphic images, an Oscilloscope, generated by an electronic (analog) machine.
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The first computer with a video display of real time data.
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The light pen is introduced
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The first videogame, SpaceWar, ran using an oscilloscope as a display.
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Jack Bresenham invents the “ideal” line-drawing algorithm.
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Nolan Kay Bushnell creates video arcade game Pong
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its only computer effects were vector-based, and then filmed.
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The apple II is the first graphics personal computer.
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used raster graphics so that regular televisions could be display devices.
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Rendering tears and water are now possible; the movement of hair still un-renderable.
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Computations fluids and fluid structure interactions now possible on laptop PCs.
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It is now possible to create, on virtually any home computer, the kind of computer graphics that would have been unimaginable even just 10 years ago.
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like this one by Pillow Castle, called The Museum of Simulation Technology.
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We're now getting into a period where “big data” is being used to construct animations that show us things we could not otherwise see/appreciate, like time-lapse changes in large structures
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It is now possible to do fascinating and “realistic” graphics on phones. For instance:
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