Artifact Details

Title

Recollections of Early Paint Systems: Transcripts and PowerPoint

Catalog Number

102737951

Type

Document

Description

With the advent of 1 Kbit integrated circuit memories in the early 1970s, it became practical for the first time to build a semiconductor memory capable of holding an entire image and displaying it on a video monitor -- a picture memory or "frame buffer."

This led to developments in interactive frame buffers, painting and drawing programs and other graphics-oriented software at Xerox PARC, the University of Utah, MIT, the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and elsewhere, and ultimately to the entire field of pixel-based graphics.

Richard Shoup built SuperPaint, the first video-compatible frame buffer and painting system at Xerox PARC in 1973. His colleague and friend Alvy Ray Smith collaborated on SuperPaint and then went on to develop the first full-color paint program and much more at NYIT in the late 1970s.

In this talk, Shoup and Smith describe the original 1973 SuperPaint graphics system, demonstrate historical videos, and and tell some stories of their early adventures in pixel graphics.

Date

2000-01-13

Contributor

Shoup, Richard G., Speaker
Smith, Alvy Ray, Speaker

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

NASA Ames Research Center

Extent

19

Format

PDF

Category

Transcription

Lot Number

X4828.2009

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102737950 Recollections of Early Paint Systems