EDUCATION Open GL: Agent of Change or Sign of theTimes? RosclleeWolfe DePaul University Although curriculum is a recurring theme of conversation in the hallways at conferences involving graphics and education, Curriculum 91 [I] marks the most recent formal discussion regarding the topics in an introductory computer graphics course. It was published in February 1991, nearly eight years ago! Eight years represents a significant percentage of the discipline's life span. Furthermore, Steve Cunningham (author of the computer graphics course that appears in Curr/culum 91) points out that although the document was published in 199 I, it reflects accepted practice from the late 1980s. So in fact it has been 10 years or even longer since substantive discussions on this topic have ~ken place. Much has changed in that time. Graphics in the Late '80s The computing environment of 10 years ago presented several subs~ntial technology challenges to a graphics instructor. In universities, g~phics hardware was still considered special purpose equipment and was not ubiquitous as it is today. Curriculum 91 mentions "a high quality color display" as a special laboratory item. Intel-based PCs were expensive and many schools relied on graphics terminals connected to a mainframe via serial lines.
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Open GL: agent of change or sign of the times?
Wolfe, Rosalee
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Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 1998
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