- Computer Displays Bibliography
Computer Displays. Pictures "painted" rapidly and accurately by an electron beam under computer control are helping designers and engineers at many tasks. Computer displays can also help to clarify complex physical phenomena...
- Final Report to the National Endowment of the Arts: Analog Computers Bibliography
"Analog computers have been much more successful as tools for the creative artist than digital computers. Analog computers are quite successfully used in music and more recently, in video art. Most of the current work in digital computer art suffers from a real lack of fluidity in control, which is …
- Principles of Electronic Image Processing - Image Processing Systems Tools
Technical overview of video synthesizers (image processors) defining them as integrated assemblages of video signal sources, processors, and controllers; examples cited include cameras, decks, character generators, oscillators, keyers, VCAs, mixers, colorizers, sequencers, SEGs and frame buffers. The text classifies three signal types (video, sync, control) and lists system elements (sync, routing, output amplifier, monitoring, control); it explains termination and genlock use, describes monitoring equipment (waveform monitor, vectorscope, color and B/W monitors) and outlines the function of colorizers.
- computer as image generator and control system Chronology
Dr. Don McArthur, Walter Wright, Paul Davis, Ralph Hocking, David Jones propose the use of a computer as image generator and control system.
- Final Report to the National Endowment of the Arts Tools
Final Project Report to the National Endowment of the Arts concerning control structures for digital computers used in art-making; the report contrasts analog and digital approaches and proposes rich non-linguistic inputs and the simulation of analog systems within digital computing. The project team recorded roughly eight years of preliminary use of slide potentiometers, dials, joysticks and data tablets, diagnosed limited human-computer degrees of freedom, and set goals to create dynamic, flexible, user-programmable multidimensional controls with constructive feedback that are easy to construct, documentable for moderate electronic skills and affordable. The work produced four device categories: pressure-sensitive keyboards, sensing clothing, force-feedback dials and time-based computer variables.
- Principles of Electronic Image Processing - Switch, Mix, Compare Tools
Overview of electronic image processing outlining imaging systems as signal generators, processors and controllers and describing switching, sequencing, mixing and comparing techniques. It defines switcher types (broadcast and distribution), timing and sync issues including internal versus external sync and vertical-interval switching; it explains sequencers, mixers, fades, wipes and keyers with clip thresholds, oscillator control signals and waveform-based patterns, and notes SEG/mixer re-entry. Switchers and mixers are identified as commercially developed prior to and during the 1950s.