Ivan Sutherland : Sketchpad Demo (2/2)

[zoveia]

Transhumanism era is coming

[kargaroc386]

dammit, manipulation of materials in the perspective view, yet contained to a single plane... I don't know of any program that does that.

[lurkist]

Wow. The flowchart at the end has to be the first graphical Data Flow ide ever.

[KFXG]

that was state of the art then.if it didnt start then and there we might not even have cpu's today

[marscaleb]

He should just use SolidWorks; it's a lot easier than that system he's got there.

[TheRealLaugh99]

when is this coming out to the shops, my computer is getting old and im looking for a new one, i needa get a high market one..

[dragonheadthing]

Wish this video was online in 2005 when I was doing my history of CG report in college.

[laugurinn]

this is awesome

[usertogo]

the real joke is that in 1981 Autocad came out and the people that made Autocad regrettably had not gotten inspiration out of Sketchpad...

[forbbbi]

paper 2 miles long

[kookara]

This is very inspirational - 1963 - 50yrs earlier. Not much has changed! Thanks for the post.

[MrJamesBond007]

There's a short bio and more recent pic of the MIT reporter John Fitch at the Fitch Family website in the About The Author link near the bottom of the page.

[karatekiddd]

its real nightmare material.

[hr1100]

we're in the future :D

[coveblue]

Not fake. Do a little research. Ivan Sutherland pioneered all forms of computer graphics (including cad systems, 3d graphics, flight simulators, and even virtual reality headsets).

[paxcoder]

When the host started talking about 3D I was thinking: nah man, they'll do it later. Why did you have to bring that up? XD

I was surprised to hear "yes" from the other man.

However, they seem to have had some problems with surfaces too :-)

But anyway, this is great stuff.

[yokumato]

Superb! Thanks for posting this, it really puts the progress of CAAD in perspective and makes evident the huge contribution that many researchers and scientists have made to the progress of architecture and engineering today.

[FulgencioFulgenciez]

Qué pasada... y pensar en lo que ha evolucionado todo este mundo del CAD.

Pero aún así... parece que todo nació de ahí, de las ideas de estos auténticos flipaos de la vida. ¡¡Viva el MIT!! ¡VIVA!

[randygland]

lol, he's using a wii remote

[arexzek]

hahahha! Thats a gud one!

[Cubbys69]

This reminds me of CADAM which came out around 1980- except that Ivan's system was faster. CADAM dragged back then. It ran off an IBM 360 and took forever to do anything. Then it crashed several times a day on top of that. Growing pains.

[neslock]

2:30; "It's real nightmare material" :)

[LordGryllwotth]

Oh yes! I did have nightmares of rooms getting larger / or i smaller!

[phogasm]

that is amazing.

[turbografx]

Z-Buffering!

[alizta]

I guess they did it directly by algorithm during drawing of the lines instead of an z-buffer. Memory at that time was still handmade and came in 64 byte blocks - and thats really bytes, not kilobytes.

So z-buffering and rasterdisplays were not really an option.

[wrtlpfmpf]

This was a vector based screens. It was really hard to do hidden line removal on those. The machine probably had a resolution of 1024x1024 or something.

[kubarebo]

@wrtlpfmpf The screen has nothing to do with hidden line removal. The screen only displays a precomputed outline. It's up to the algorithms that take a bunch of faces to generate a display list to do hidden edge removal etc.

[dombou70]

Holy fuck me silly this is insane. I don't think I could code this nowadays let alone back then :S

[VagianTuerous]

Incredibly interesting to see where this all came from :)

[Zaisorian]

awesome!

[pikuorguk]

Isn't it totally depressing how computing hasn't advanced at all since the 60s?

It just does the same stuff quicker, with more colours, in a smaller box for 1/1000th the price.

[allanseeder]

you have a point there. I cant do these things here with my computer even now:D

[XanderX84]

This is basically what we do in CAD/3d modeling programs now!

It's kind of interesting that while everybody was enamored with spaceflight and thought we'd all be flying to the moon by now, the real wave of the future was happening labs like this.

[gamerz1]

wonderful

[rino2007mau]

external references in 1962?

[kinwaing]

wow its 3D!!!!

[knox11]

Just damn amazing for the 60's

[firefoxusd]

That's so freakin awesome, I can't believe they had such advanced drawing (and even basic 3d!) programs back then in 60s :-O

[ikemstar]

Just genius.

[tuxicle]

Absolutely incredible that they did all this in 1963! Many of today's drawing programs are still not as useful as Sketchpad was.

[AnonymousOficial]

of course, just to draw this page and that youtube video, your computer must do the same thing as 1 million sketchpads combined :)