Line Drawing System-1
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LDS-1 (Line Drawing System-1) was a calligraphic (vector, rather than raster) display processor and display device created by Evans & Sutherland in 1969.[1] This model was known as the first graphics device with a graphics processing unit.[2]
Features
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It was controlled by a variety of host computers. Straight lines were smoothly rendered in real-time animation. General principles of operation were similar to the systems used today: 4x4 transformation matrices, 1x4 vertices. Possible uses included flight simulation (in the product brochure there are screenshots of landing on a carrier), scientific imaging and GIS systems.
History
[edit | edit source]The first LDS-1 was shipped to the customer (BBN) in August 1969.[3] Only a few of these systems were ever built. One was used by the Los Angeles Times as their first typesetting/layout computer. One went to NASA Ames Research Center for Human Factors Research. Another was bought by the Port Authority of New York to develop a tugboat pilot trainer for navigation in the harbor. The MIT Dynamic Modeling had one, and there was a program for viewing an ongoing game of Maze War. [4][5]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Case Western Reserve University § Computing, where Project Logos had an LDS-1.
References
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