I can't see an actual date for this event in the web page. Does anybody know it?
Wayne Carlson at Ohio State knows as much about the history of computer graphics as anyone (he is an important part of it). His timeline is here. http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/timeline.html He identifies the first digitally scanned photo in 1957 and the first direct image storage system in 1965 (the precursor to the framestore and therefore the pixel). The framestore isn't mentioned in the timeline but that was developed in the 60's by Ivan Sutherland whilst at Utah. He does mention the first framebuffer, essentially a framestore, which was developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. So far as I know the framestore/buffer introduced the pixel for the first time. It was roughly (but perhaps not exactly) square. Lillian Schwartz is credited with pixelating an image for the first time in 1970. Many early systems had rectangular pixels. It depended in the x and y resolution of the framestore and the ratio of the destination display device. The first Matrox board I had (1978) was 512 x 512 resolution which I used with a 4:3 screen. This ensured the pixels were 4:3 ratio as well, if you wanted the image to fill the screen. Of course, you could programme it to be any ratio you liked. Best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > From: Rob Myers <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:26:37 +0100 > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Fifty Years of Pixels > > http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/06/fifty_years_of_squares.html > > "Russell Kirsch says he's sorry. > > > More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and > scanned it into a computer. It was the first digital image: a grainy, > black-and-white baby picture that literally changed the way we view the > world. With it, the smoothness of images captured on film was shattered > to bits. > > The square pixel became the norm, thanks in part to Kirsch, and the > world got a little bit rougher around the edges." > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
