Pixar's former president Edwin Catmull and founding employee Pat Hanrahan have been awarded the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their contributions to computer graphics. The award is handed out by the ...

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics (or more specifically, 3D computer graphics) to special effects. CGI is used in films, television programs and ...

With Tron Legacy out and making us all reflect on how far computer graphics have come since 1982, we thought that this would be a good time to look at the history, evolution and occasionally ...

30-some years ago, when men were men and Darth Vader wasn’t some emo nancy-boy, we didn’t have CGI: We had dials, pushbuttons, monochromatic screens and, thankfully, someone with the good sense to ...

Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, ...

DirectX 12 is the upcoming graphics API from Microsoft, and it is expected to change PC gaming forever. The API should be able to push more performance from old to new graphic cards, potentially ...

Back in the early 1980s, a spinning square world heralded the start of a computer animation revolution, as this archive BBC footage shows. Back in 1982, computing was really going mainstream. Tron, ...