Frame buffer invented by Richard Shoup, working on Alan Kay's Xerox PARC Alto project, in 1972.
First recorded bitmap picture = Shoup, excited, holding a small placard reading "it works". E&S commercialized the device. ~Adam Sent from my iPhone On 07/07/2012, at 3:18, Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org> wrote: > On 07/06/2012 02:16 PM, Simon Biggs wrote: >> With the death of Flash it's not just the vector based screen on its way >> out (that's been on the way out ever since Evans and Sutherland invented >> the framestore at the start of the 1970's) but also vector based >> graphics (or at least one commercial application). > > Flash isn't needed for vector graphics on the web, though. Even if we don't > use SVG, the html5 canvas tag supports all the usual vector graphics > operations, and there are JavaScript libraries to support this: > > http://raphaeljs.com/ > > http://d3js.org/ > > http://calebevans.me/projects/jcanvas/index.php > > - Rob. > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > http://www.subtle.net/empyre _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
