New Jersey’s Bell Laboratories and Germany’s Technical University of Stuttgart were the world’s two main hubs of experimental computer art in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. There, artist-scientists like William Fetter and Herbert Franke used carefully plotted data to construct visualizations that would come to be recognized as the first computer-generated images. Fetter even coined the term “computer graphics” in an attempt to describe his early rendering of the human form, seen above.
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