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The Dawn of Digital Light
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 38, Number 4, October-December 2016
- pp. 74-91
- 10.1353/ahc.2016.0045
- Article
- Additional Information
The pixel serves as a unifying concept bringing computer graphics and image processing, indeed all pixel-mediated fields, into a single world called digital light. This article utilizes known instances and original research to reunify the early history of digital light. It shows that the first pictures, video games, and computer animations were in fact created on the earliest computers.