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Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System Hardware and Software Research Results for project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts

Authors
Donald McArthur; Walter Wright
Secondary Author
Sherry Miller-Hocking
Publisher
Experimental Television Center Ltd.
Date
October 1977
Place
Binghamton, New York
Type of work
Manuscript, text or essay

Abstract

Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System Hardware and Software Research Results for project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with Introduction by Sherry Miller-Hocking, papers by Donald McArthur: "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- An Orientation to Hardware Architecture", "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- A Paper presented at the 'Design/Electronic Arts (Buffalo, New York)' conference in March 1977"; Walter Wright: "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- Software", "A Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System- A Paper presented at the "Design/Electronic Arts' conference in March 1977"- with question and answer transcription includes Tom Dewitt, George Chaikin, Laurie Spiegel. Bound in red binder.
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McArthur, Donald; Wright, Walter. Computer-Based Video Synthesizer System Hardware and Software Research Results for project supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Experimental Television Center Ltd. October 1977.

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