History of Science & Technology Q&A (April 20, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
The History of Computer Graphics
Evans and Sutherland was an early computer graphics company that invented a lot of the methods for rendering 3D objects. SGI Silicon Graphics, one of its specialties was having it be the case that you could take a 3D geometry and have it rendered on the computer to do all those kinds of cool things. And I think gradually that sort of special purpose circuitry methodology gave way to these libraries like GL.
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