Some History on computer animation
Ivan Sutherland using Sketchpad in 1962 Sutherland's demonstrating Sketchpad Created by the MIT Lincoln laboratory, Sketchpad was a program developed by Ivan Sutherland as a design tool. Sketchpad became the first program ever to utilize a complete user interface, paving the way for human computer interaction. One of the breakthrough features of the program was that it utilized geometric constraints which allowed the user to easily change geometric properties of a drawing such as being able to change the length and angle between two lines. Humming Bird Created by Charles Csuri in 1967, Humming Bird became one of the first computer animations to include digital morphing. CCP demo Csuri quickly became one of the first people to discover the computers potential for making art and in 1971 he established a computer graphics research group at Ohio State University. By 1981 he established Cranston/Csuri Produc...