This video features the keynote speech presented by Dr. Jim Blinn at the 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers Reception in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at SIGGRAPH 2018.
Abstract of the talk from Dr. Blinn:
"August, 2018, marks the 50th anniversary of when I first made a picture with a computer, using a PDP-9/339 display system at the University of Michigan. It was the beginning of a career characterized by amazing good timing and good luck. In this talk I will discuss this and revisit the state of the art in 1968 to show how things were done back then. I will show off some projects I did at Michigan, honor some of the people who helped me get in to the field, and tell a few valuable life lessons learned. So, return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when ‘personal’ computers were the size of bunk beds, only did line drawings, but had 300,000 cores... everything was in upper case and all the easy problems hadn’t been solved yet.
The CONCOMP project that I was associated with at the University of Michigan also did research in a lot of other non-computer-graphics areas. To see a list go to [ Ссылка ] and search for CONCOMP."
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