Sketchpad Demonstration
Ivan Sutherland demonstrated Sketchpad, a revolutionary program that allowed users to draw and manipulate graphical objects directly on a CRT screen using a light pen. It introduced concepts like graphical constraints and direct manipulation.
Significance
Pioneered interactive computer graphics and direct manipulation, laying conceptual groundwork for GUIs and the need for tools to build them.
Key facts
- Date
- 1963-01-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA