From Teapots to Toy Story: A Prehistory of Computer Graphics

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is home to the world's largest collection of working historic computers.Follow the development of computing: from the Turing-Welchman Bombe and Colossus of the 1940s through the large systems and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, to the rise of personal computing and the rise of mobile computing and the internet.Recognised as one of England’s top 100 ‘irreplaceable places’, we welcome corporate and group visits, schools and individuals from all over the world.We are normally open Tuesday to Friday 10:30 -17:00, Saturday & Sunday 10:30 – 17:00. Please check tickets for actual opening days and times.TNMOC operates independently of Bletchley Park Trust, although we are located on the Bletchley Park Estate.To visit us, go through the main Bletchley Park entrance, through the barrier, walk or drive bearing left beyond the main car parks, to our separate entrance located at the top of the Park.Visit their website here for more information.https://www.tnmoc.org/Sat Nav users: please use the postcode for the railway station MK3 6DS on Sherwood Drive and then follow signs. The postcode for Bletchley Park will actually take you to an old entrance which is closed.

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A virtual talk by Jacob GabouryFrom the big screen to the device in your pocket, computer graphics define our engagement with digital - but how did we get here and what part did a teapot play?Find out with Jacob Gaboury as he goes back to a time before graphics were immersive, before they were even popular - to the prehistory of computer graphics.In this virtual talk, Jacob travels from Utah to the UK. He goes back to the University of Utah Computer Science Department’s Graphics Lab where modern graphics was born and whose graduates include co-founders of Pixar, Adobe Systems and Silicon Graphics.He will explore the impact of Martin Newell, the British researcher who - inspired by a teapot - defined realistic 3D rendering and is honoured by animators, illustrators, and User Interface and design practitioners to this day.He will also:<ul><li>Tell the history of Newell's famous teapot simulation and its connection to modern computer graphics.</li><li>Develop a prehistory of computer graphics that looks beyond MIT and Silicon Valley to global connections in the US and UK</li><li>Examines connections between US research centres for computer graphics and British CAD and simulator firms in the 1970s and 1980s.</li></ul>Jacob is author of the newly released Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics that traces the early history of computer graphics through a set of five objects. He is also associate professor of film and media at the University of California at Berkeley.PLEASE NOTE: Participants will be sent the link to the virtual talk no later than two days before the event.

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From Teapots to Toy Story: A Prehistory of Computer Graphics

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