![]() ![]() The lessons learned at Evans & Sutherland created a large part of the computer graphics industry. Some of the most important inventions have been created with collaboration. ![]() That accomplishment alone should be recognized and respected. The company was able to encourage and inspire students to rise to the top. The students included Jim Clark who started Silicon Graphics, which led the computer graphics industry for decades Ed Catmull, who started Pixar Alan Kay, who led Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that inspired the MacIntosh and computer mouse John Warnock, who founded Adobe (printing languages) and Alan Ashton, who founded Wordperfect. The company also hired young students and encouraged innovation that resulted in some of the first graphics systems for shading, antialiasing, 3D graphics, vector (later Adobe Postscript and Macromedia Flash) and raster (Photoshop) imaging and printer languages. In 1968, the company helped develop the first virtual reality head mounted display system, which was known as the "Sword of Damocles." The most recent version of that display system is Google Glass. Graphics could help interactions with computers and simulators could be one of the most useful products using computer graphics. The breakthrough concept was that computers were not just for text. They created Evans & Sutherland to develop simulation systems using computer graphics. Graphics computer systems, Sketchpad in 1962 (Photo: Courtesy of Evans & Sutherland) Ivan Sutherland was famous for one of the first Sutherland had achieved fame in 1962 by creating Sketchpad, a computer drawing system that was the first graphical user interface. He recruited Sutherland to the university - the two had worked together previously on ARPA computer projects. ![]() In 1968, the University of Utah's computer science department was chaired by David Evans. Almost 50 years after the creation of the company, their products have inspired computer systems and students who went on to found Adobe, Silicon Graphics and Pixar. Starting with Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad, Evans & Sutherland changed the way people worked with computers. Their ubiquitous graphical user interface was developed into Windows, Apple MacIntosh/Mac and Google's Android. The company developed many of the systems and standards that are in computers today. It is about the creation of the computer graphics industry that was generated by the Utah company Evans & Sutherland. Tips for future articles can be sent to SALT LAKE CITY - One of the most amazing stories of computing is not out of Microsoft or Apple, or some company in San Francisco. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story.Įditor's Note: This article is part of the Utah Inventions series, which features a different inventor or invention with Utah ties each Wednesday. Only for your personal, non-commercial use. ![]()
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