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    1970s: The Building Blocks of 3D Animation

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    In the 1970s, many of the basic building blocks of modern 3D animation were developed, including shaders and rendering techniques. Researchers created algorithms enabling hidden surfaces to be rendered as 3D, and Gouraud shading allowed faceted polygons to render smoothly. Ed Catmull developed texture mapping in 1974, helping early 3D graphics achieve realism. These innovations laid important foundations for 3D animation.

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    In the 1970s, many of the basic building blocks of modern 3D animation were developed, including shaders and rendering techniques. Researchers created algorithms enabling hidden surfaces to be rendered as 3D, and Gouraud shading allowed faceted polygons to render smoothly. Ed Catmull developed texture mapping in 1974, helping early 3D graphics achieve realism. These innovations laid important foundations for 3D animation.

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    In the 1970s, many of the basic building blocks of modern 3D animation were developed, including shaders and rendering techniques. Researchers created algorithms enabling hidden surfaces to be rendered as 3D, and Gouraud shading allowed faceted polygons to render smoothly. Ed Catmull developed texture mapping in 1974, helping early 3D graphics achieve realism. These innovations laid important foundations for 3D animation.

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    1970s: the Building Blocks

    of 3D Animation
    • In the 1970s we saw the computer become smaller and faster, and the idea of 3D virtual
    surfaces was also being invented. Many of the basics of 3D animation we still use today like
    shaders and rendering were invented at this time. Also the first glimpse of 3D animation in film
    was witnessed. In 1971, the microprocessor was developed, which allowed for the electronics
    of a computer to be miniaturized down to a single chip. Many of the building blocks of basic 3D
    animation were invented during this decade. Researchers at the University of Utah created an
    algorithm enabling hidden surfaces to be rendered as 3D surfaces onscreen. Up to this point,
    the only thing a technician could do was draw wireframe lines, resulting in flat shading of
    polygons that made an object look faceted and blocky. But in 1971 Henri Gouraud created
    Gouraud shading, which allowed for the faceted polygon surface to render and look smooth.
    Figure 1.8 shows a comparison of flat shading and Gouraud shading. Ed Catmull, while finishing
    his time at the University of Utah, created texture mapping in 1974 that allowed these early 3D
    graphics to achieve realism not seen to date. Catmull went on to create advancements in anti-
    aliasing and z-buffering and become the president of Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney
    Animation Studio.

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