Digital Literacy: Visual Communication and Computer Images Paul Martin Lester California State University at Fullerton Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid photographic camera and 60-second process (so useful for love-struck and immodest honeymooners as well as those wanting to demonstrate digital photography with a flatbed scanner, but without a still digital camera) made an important remark about his creative and technical invention process that is of value co all of us who have allowed pixelated patterns of light to fill our eyes and minds with color and wonder: computer graphics as an imporcanm advance in motion picture production. However, the technological benef'rcs of such publicity were delayed because the public wasn't interested in a story about a video game programmer who could go inside his machine. Many experts have predicted that if Tron had been a success, the field of computer-generated images for movies would be even more advanced today. Nevertheless, major motion picture producers starred to use computer graphics effects in numerous movies. For example, in the 19g0s there were such releases as Star Trek I1: The Wralh of Khan (1982), 2010 (I 9B4), The Last Starfighter (1984), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Flight of the Nav/gatar (1986),
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