Realistic, high-tech animation is infiltrating our world. From video games and internet applications to commercial advertisments and feature film productions, photo-realism of animation is a provokative new outlet for visual communication. Programs such as Photoshop and Final Cut Pro employ a graphical user interface (GUI) which allows users to digitally manipulate images, essentially blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
- gameplay
- graphic
- first computer game developed: tic-tac-toe
- EDSAC - (military missile targeting??)
- 1948 - Wilkes developed first computer
- three countries developed computers almost simultaneously during this time (usa, england, germany). computers were almost identical in the way they functioned.
- Space War - "granddaddy of all modern computer games"; first multiplayer game, networked
- Chess - "Deep Blue" was IBM's computer which first beat a chess grand master
- Toomraider became a big hit partially because it gave a 3rd person perspective of a sexy avatar
- many computers now have a separate processor dedicated to video games
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