Over here at the Computer Graphics Museum, we’ve been working hard on items behind the scenes and haven’t updated the blog much lately. However, Chris Brown recently sent me a link to this article in The Atlantic magazine: The Never-Before-Told Story of the World’s First Computer Art about early vector graphics done on the SAGE computer system display. Check it out!
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The story of computer graphics
Note: while this article may be somewhat focused on a prurient angle, the SAGE computer system was one of the very first computer systems to use interactive computer graphics as an integral part of it’s design.
A less tabloid treatment of the SAGE computer system can be found in “From Whirlwind to MITRE: The R&D Story of The SAGE Air Defense Computer” by Redmond and Smith