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Bit by byte, electronic graphics do compute
Enter the age of the computer Very rarely has a single
component so generally and indiscriminately asserted itself
upon society, its art and science, its work and leisure. As the
recent University-sponsored computer graphics conference
showed, the evolutionary, or rather, revolutionary process
continues at a frenzied pace
Computers have existed for decades But only since the
early 1960's, when scientists
wired them to humans and
Boeing invented a primitive
flight simulator, did computer
graphics — visualizing ideas
on computers — become
functional Since then, doc
tors, engineers, architects,
educators, moviemakers and
artists have explored the com
puter's potential.
"It represents a major change in
philosophy," said Ken O'Connell, associate
professor of Fine and Applied Arts ar.d co-director
I the first annual Pacific Northwest Computer Graphics
Conference. "Now, anyone who wishes to do his or her own
work better, can use the computer as a tool "
of
A unit that costs $3 to 4 million 10 years ago can be
purchased for $3 to 4 thousand today, he said Within the last
six years, companies like Apple. Inc have developed basic
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computer languages the simplest of us can comprehend
"Computers will be in the hands of many, as familiar to all
of uS as television.”
Indeed, the conference attracted a large following The
brainchild of O'Connell and Gene Bressler, conference
co-director and associate professor of Landscape
Architecture, the event attracted some 800 avid computer
buffs, seven businesses demonstrating their wares and
renowned speakers from 12 academic disciplines.
The state-of-the-art exhibition showed that even the way
in which we receive information may be changed by com
puters and their graphics components
"We are on the verge of a very gradual evolution away
from print, and we have a long way to go," said Richard
Gingras, of KCET-TV in Los Angeles In cooperation with its
network, the station brought news and sports to 100 families
with home computers
Aaron Marcus, staff scientist and graphic designer at
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif . agreed "If
you have 1,000 television stations and hundreds of
newspapers coming into your home every day, you will need
an information management system just to deal with that
Meanwhile, displays showed how representation of
objects on the computer screen can aid molecular biology,
design and manufacturing, landscape architecture, land
planning and film animation With equal efficiency, com
puters could show the stress of a bridge, the aesthetic quality
of a proposed shopping center or the comfort of a Birken
stock sole
"People with different areas of interest are able to utilize
the computer as a tool to aid in their applications. " O'Connell
said
Computer art. criticized by many artists fearful of losing
their jobs to a machine, also drew praise
"The computer is not the artist," said Paul White, a
graduate fellow in landscape architecture "It only is a way of
visualizing things — a painting, film, or sculpture — to help the
artist."
"We will always need artists," declared Alvy Ray Smith,
computer graphics project leader at Lucastilm, ltd In film,
computer graphics are used very little
"So far, only four or five films have used computer
generated images," Smith told the delegates Further, the
procedure involves 20 or 30 exposures for a single frame
"You can't screw up, even once."
As an example of the difficulty involved in animation,
Smith showed a 60-second clip from "Star Trek II" that took
about six months to produce on the computer. “We re
obviously not ready for feature-length movies," he said.
And though he refused to disclose any information about
the next Lucas blockbuster, Smith did mention a personal
dream — "a computer game to make your own movie "
A game for the young Indeed, the youth of the speakers
indicated that computers are for the future
“The next generation will be unintimidated by
technology," exclaimed keynote speaker Randall L Stickrod,
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founder and publisher of Computer Graphics World “For
them, the computer will be a natural extension, a tool of the
living environment. I can't wait until 10 years from now, when
they're developing a whole new generation of technology.”
Encouraged by both student and administration support,
conference organizers hope to make the University a center
for computer graphics research, development and applica
tion “The conference did wonders for the University's
image," O’Connell said
Next year, the directors
intend to have a bigger and
better conference in the Hult
Performing Arts Center.
Vendors are already voicing
interest in the second conven
tion — a far cry from this year,
when the conference suffered
a “credibility problem."
By 1983, this year’s
displays just could be ob
solete. Gordon Goles, from Earthware,
in Eugene, watched as delegates made
computer art on his digitizing tablet (on which
one draws an image that is then transferred to the
computer).In reply tc a question, he said his system had been
in existence about 18 months.
“You think that's new? "In this business, it’s ancient."
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