The Video Computer: Image Computing in the Studio

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1987, No. 31, pp. 23–27
Abstract: A general-purpose video computer is proposed which combines many studio or post-production functions, now available only in separate pieces of equipment, and extends their functionality. The ideal machine is described and the current state of the idea is given. The restrictions of realtime and broadcast day are compared. The conclusion is that video computers are already a viable idea within the broadcast-day-turnaround criterion and that the hardware exists as so-called image computers, general-purpose digital computers for the class of computations on images. Consequently software houses could immediately begin preparing applications on video computers for the broadcast video market.
Publication Date: 1987-02-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00875
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00875
Author(s): Alvy Ray SmithPixar San Rafael, California
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Dr. Alvy Ray Smith co-founder and vice-president of Pixar, a company specializing in digital visualization products and services. He has founded during his career, with Dr. Edwin Catmull, three centers of computer graphics excellence: the Computer Graphics Laboratory at the New York Institute of Technology in the mid 70s, the Computer Division of Lucasfilm Ltd. in the early 80s, and Pixar, a year ago. Alvy has published many technical papers in computer graphics, created or directed some of its best-known pictures and animations, and managed some of the most innovative people in the field, in hardware and software. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1970.
Copyright: © 1987 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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