Impact of Computer Graphics in Our Daily Life
Computer Graphics and Architecture: State of the A r t and Outlook for the Future
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Julie Dorsey Leonard McMillan profession. Computer graphics has revolutionized the drafting process, enabling the rapid entry and modification of designs (see Musachusetts Instbitute o f Technology Figure I). In addition, modeling and rendering systems have proven to be invaluable aids in Introduction the visualization process, allowing designers During the three decades since Ivan to walk through their designs with photorealSutherland introduced the Skerchpad system istic imagery (see Figure 2) [6, 2, 3]. [7], there has been an outpouring of computComputer graphics systems have also demoner graphics systems for use in architecture [3, strated utility for capturing engineering infor5]. In response to this development, most of mation, greatly simplifying the analysis and the major architectural firms around the construction of proposed designs. However, it world have embraced the idea that computer is important to consider that all of these literacy is mandatory for success. We would tasks occur near the conclusion of a larger argue, however, that most of these recent design process. In fact, most of the artistic developments have failed to tap the potential and intellectual challenges of an architectural design have already been resolved by the time the designer sits down in front of a computer. In seeking insight into the design process, it is generally of little use to revisit the various computer archives kLE:I ~ L~. ' ~ ~ ~ and backups. Instead, it ~. , ~i¸" ,iiI, is best to explore the reams of sketches and crude balsa models that fill the trash cans of any architectural studio. Rlure h Hidden line axonemetric view of the Tenerife House. Designed by Ann In architecture, as in Pendleton-Jullian;modeled byJack de Valpine and Ben Black,V/SARCInc.,Boston,MIL most other fields, the See page 99/or/map In full co/or. initial success of computerization has been in of the computer as a