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SCV History - Highlights

• 1979
  • The Center for Computer Geometry and Design
  • Glenn Bresnahan and Ron Resch
  • Housed with Center for Artisanry
  • Manufacturing
  • First Star Trek Movie: set manufacture

• 1981
  • Computer Graphics Laboratory (part of Academic Computing Center)
  • IBM 370
  • IBM 3090
  • PDP 11 running Unix
  • Matrix Instruments
  • 16 mm film
  • BU Modeling System (MS) 3D modeling software
  • ``Episode in the Life of a Cube''
  • ``Octongula''

• 1984
  • VAX running Unix
  • Video: 3/4" U-Matic, VAS controller
  • BU Digital Video Workbench (DVW) paint system
  • Prof. Bob Devaney: geometry, dynamical systems, fractals

• 1986
  • Celerity mini computer
  • ISI (successor to PDP 11)
  • Sun workstation
  • 3D Font Design

• 1988
  • SGI workstations
  • Thinking Machines CM-2
  • BU Art Show: Digital Visions
  • Throw it in the Harbor
  • Snowflake for PBS 1-2-3 Contact

• 1992
  • Thinking Machines CM-5
  • SGI 8-processor Onyx
  • Interactive Painting International at SIGGRAPH '92 in Chicago

• 1995
  • SGI Power Challenge Array
  • Scientific Visualization Sampler in SIGGRAPH/NE Film and Video Show
  • TERRIERS satellite animation

• 1996
  • SGI Origin 2000
  • Airbag visualization
  • VR treatment for fear of flying
  • MIT CilkChess and BU Origin 200 at Aegon

• 1997
  • Immersadesk installed
  • Open House debuts first multi-project VR demo
  • Origin 2000 adds 128 processors

• 1998
  • Hipart project begins
  • ArtWorld debuts at Alliance 98
  • Rendering for ``Lost in Space''

• 1999
  • Alzheimer's plaque visualization in Computer Graphics World
  • Gateway to Spirited Ruins at CyberArts 99
  • Chitauqua w/Spirited Ruins Opening and Hipart day
  • Image processing for IMAX

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