The Computer Museum History Center is delighted to present:
"Recollections of Early Paint Systems"
Richard Shoup & Alvy Ray Smith
January 13, 2000
18:00 hrs
Building 3
(Moffett Training and Conference Center)
NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, CA 94035
In the early 1970s, with the advent of 1 Kbit integrated circuit
memories, 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 NYIT, and elsewhere,
and ultimately to the entire field of pixel-based graphics.
Dick Shoup built the first video-compatible frame buffer and
painting system, "SuperPaint," 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 New York Tech in the late 1970s.
In this talk, Dick and Alvy will describe and demonstrate
-- hardware gods willing --the original 1973 SuperPaint
graphics system, and a Windows-based PC emulation of the NYIT
full-color Paint3 program, exhibit historical footage of early
graphics programs and achievements, and tell some stories of
their early adventures in pixel graphics.
Following the lecture, tours of The Computer Museum History
Center's Exhibit Area will be conducted by Center staff.
Refreshments will be served and admission is free.
Attending:
Please RSVP by January 12 to Wendy-Ann Francis.
(francis_at_computerhistory.org) Due to government regulations,
all lecture attendees must register to be admitted to NASA
Ames Research Center. If you are a U.S. citizen or Green
Card holder, please provide your full name and affiliation.
If you are not a US citizen and do not have a Green Card,
please provide your full name, affiliation, citizenship,
VISA type and expiration date, passport number and expiration
date, date of birth, and country of birth.
We look forward to seeing you on the 13th!
This announcement, along with, reference materials, links,
photographs and directions to the event, appears on our
website at:
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/superpaint_01132000/
D.S.
--
Dag Spicer
Curator & Manager of Historical Collections
Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
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Received on Fri Dec 31 1999 - 10:21:05 GMT