Brief History Of Computer Animation

Would you believe if we said that the use of computer animation goes way back to the 1940s when Jay Forrester at the M.I.T created equipment to train the new batch of pilots and the digital computer was used for the experiment, since it was adaptive and flexible with the machine and was convenient to program.

History Personal Computer

In the year 1968, a demonstration given by SRI researcher Douglas Englebert could be called the biggest of all demos so far. The demo gave a fore-sight of how working lifestyles would be in the 21st century with e-mails, word processing, hypertext, the mouse and video conferencing. This particular demonstration needed a lot of assistance from the support staff and also a mainframe computer that had the facility of time-sharing. It was found that all of this was way too expensive for businesses that operated individually in those days.