Retrospectives I: the early years in computer graphics at MIT, Lincoln Lab, and Harvard

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 19-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hurst ◽  
M. S. Mhoney ◽  
N. H. Taylor ◽  
D. T. Ross ◽  
R. M. Fano

This paper begins with a brief introduction of the early years of interactive computer graphics and the entrance of Lockheed-Georgia into the field. Several specific applications are discussed with particular emphasis on structural analysis and engineering master drawings. The paper describes the difficulties in the acquisition of cost effectiveness data for this new technology, but it also stresses the value of such data. The current trend towards lower cost graphic systems is discussed along with the portents of such systems.


Author(s):  
J. Hurst ◽  
M. S. Mahoney ◽  
J. T. Gilmore ◽  
L. G. Roberts ◽  
R. Forrest

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 39-73
Author(s):  
J. Hurst ◽  
M. S. Mahoney ◽  
J. T. Gilmore ◽  
L. G. Roberts ◽  
R. Forrest

Leonardo ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Jones

This paper takes a brief look at the early years of computer-graphic and video-synthesizer–driven image production in Australia. It begins with the first (known) Australian data visualization, in 1957, and proceeds through the compositing of computer graphics and video effects in the music videos of the late 1980s. The author surveys the types of work produced by workers on the computer graphics and video synthesis systems of the early period and draws out some indications of the influences and interactions among artists and engineers and the technical systems they had available, which guided the evolution of the field for artistic production.


Author(s):  
J. Hurst ◽  
M. S. Mhoney ◽  
N. H. Taylor ◽  
D. T. Ross ◽  
R. M. Fano

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.


Author(s):  
Lee D. Peachey ◽  
Lou Fodor ◽  
John C. Haselgrove ◽  
Stanley M. Dunn ◽  
Junqing Huang

Stereo pairs of electron microscope images provide valuable visual impressions of the three-dimensional nature of specimens, including biological objects. Beyond this one seeks quantitatively accurate models and measurements of the three dimensional positions and sizes of structures in the specimen. In our laboratory, we have sought to combine high resolution video cameras with high performance computer graphics systems to improve both the ease of building 3D reconstructions and the accuracy of 3D measurements, by using multiple tilt images of the same specimen tilted over a wider range of angles than can be viewed stereoscopically. Ultimately we also wish to automate the reconstruction and measurement process, and have initiated work in that direction.Figure 1 is a stereo pair of 400 kV images from a 1 micrometer thick transverse section of frog skeletal muscle stained with the Golgi stain. This stain selectively increases the density of the transverse tubular network in these muscle cells, and it is this network that we reconstruct in this example.


Author(s):  
J.R. McIntosh ◽  
D.L. Stemple ◽  
William Bishop ◽  
G.W. Hannaway

EM specimens often contain 3-dimensional information that is lost during micrography on a single photographic film. Two images of one specimen at appropriate orientations give a stereo view, but complex structures composed of multiple objects of graded density that superimpose in each projection are often difficult to decipher in stereo. Several analytical methods for 3-D reconstruction from multiple images of a serially tilted specimen are available, but they are all time-consuming and computationally intense.


Author(s):  
J. E. Johnson

In the early years of biological electron microscopy, scientists had their hands full attempting to describe the cellular microcosm that was suddenly before them on the fluorescent screen. Mitochondria, Golgi, endoplasmic reticulum, and other myriad organelles were being examined, micrographed, and documented in the literature. A major problem of that early period was the development of methods to cut sections thin enough to study under the electron beam. A microtome designed in 1943 moved the specimen toward a rotary “Cyclone” knife revolving at 12,500 RPM, or 1000 times as fast as an ordinary microtome. It was claimed that no embedding medium was necessary or that soft embedding media could be used. Collecting the sections thus cut sounded a little precarious: “The 0.1 micron sections cut with the high speed knife fly out at a tangent and are dispersed in the air. They may be collected... on... screens held near the knife“.


2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-380
Author(s):  
S Wolfendale
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