Title
Lecture: Recollections of Early Paint SystemsCatalog Number
102624026Type
Moving imageDescription
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
2000-01-13Participants
| Shoup, Dick, Speaker |
| Smith, Alvy Ray, Speaker |