COMPUTER GRAPHICS PIONEERS W h a t Ooes it M o a n to be a C 6 Pioniaer? CarlMachover Machover Associates W h e n the C o m p u t e r Graphics Pioneers w e r e founded about 10 years ago, the founders decided you w e r e n ' t really a pioneer unless you worked in computer graphics before the i n t r o d u c t i o n of the storage tube. Before the storage tube, CG was a cure for no known disease - an expensive one, at that. After the storage tube, CG became a cure for every known disease and the prices have gone down considerably. So we all felt that a true pioneer was one who worked in the tough CG world prior to the storage tube. However, we realized that if we kept that criteria we'd essentially be a celibate organization and would die out, just like the Shakers. So we reestablished the criteria and said you were a CG Pioneer if you had been in graphics 20 years. Well, that gets us back to 1979, but I think for a
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