Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1946
Birth of Early Digital Tools
This year saw three key developments in the technology that would enable computer art. • The first point plotters begin development: Electronics Associates, Inc. • “Light Gun,” precursor of the light pen, is developed by the military for the Whirlwind project.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
Movements
Technology and Art, computer art
Filed under
- Ideas
- military funding, tools
- Technologies
- light gun, light pen, plotter, Plotter Art, Whirlwind computer
- Organisations
- Electronic Associates, Inc.
Echoes across time
- 1960 · William Fetter Creates the First Computer Graphics
- 1963 · Military Agencies Create Early Computer-Generated Art
- 1967 · Charles Csuri Enters the Computer Art Scene with Series of Important Works
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