Relive the 1980s with a book that looks at some excellent, decades-old computer graphics. Relive the 1980s with a book that looks at some excellent, decades-old computer graphics.

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

Werner Randelshofer of ETH Zurich university maintains an online archive of the fledgling computer graphics of eighties and nineties home computers. Werner Randelshofer of ETH Zurich university ...

When computer graphics was in its infancy—well before CG dinosaurs appeared—a simple 3D model of a teapot was used for testing software and new rendering techniques. And the simple lines of Normann ...

Graphics and effects systems have come a long way in the past 20 years. (Left) Shown here is the Chiron II, the first character generator from Chyron, in use at ABC more than 30 years ago. The system ...

Using computers that feature a high-resolution, full-color graphical interface is commonplace today, but it took a lot of effort and ingenuity to get to this point. This long history is the topic of ...