Chapter 4: Basic and applied research moves the industry

Basic and applied research moves the industry

Researchers at universities and laboratories around the world began to investigate techniques that could harness the power of the computer and its display and interaction devices to solve problems and provide capabilities that may have been outside of the reach of certain users because of the complexity of the programming process.

 

Ray-Tracing, Turner Whitted (1980)

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