Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation

by Tom Sito

Book Overview

A behind-the-scenes history of computer graphics, featuring a cast of math nerds, avant-garde artists, cold warriors, hippies, video game players, and studio executives.

Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It began in 1963 when an MIT graduate student named Ivan Sutherland created...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262528401
• ISBN13: 9780262528405
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher