Relive the 1980s with a book that looks at some excellent, decades-old computer graphics. Relive the 1980s with a book that looks at some excellent, decades-old computer graphics.

Marilyn Monroe getting ready for her close-up in a movie of the future March, 1994 Popular Mechanics A couple of weeks ago audiences at the Coachella music festival got to see Tupac perform live (NSFW ...

Graphics and effects systems have come a long way in the past 20 years. (Left) Shown here is the Chiron II, the first character generator from Chyron, in use at ABC more than 30 years ago. The system ...

When computer graphics was in its infancy—well before CG dinosaurs appeared—a simple 3D model of a teapot was used for testing software and new rendering techniques. And the simple lines of Normann ...

Using computers that feature a high-resolution, full-color graphical interface is commonplace today, but it took a lot of effort and ingenuity to get to this point. This long history is the topic of ...

An undated photo of video-game pioneer Roberta Williams during the early days of Sierra On-Line, the company she and her husband founded. Courtesy Ken Williams “You are in the front yard of a large ...