Computer Graphics Quotes

• All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.

  Jim Blinn

  Computer, Problem, Inversions

  Jim Blinn (1998). “Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty Pixels”, p.250, Morgan Kaufmann

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• You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

  Wim Crouwel

  Work, Technology, Design

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• ... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

  Lev Manovich

  Photography, Technology, Reality

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• I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

  Robin Williams

  Games, Play, Long

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Computer, Used, Deals

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• I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.

  Hiroshi Yamauchi

  Cutting, Epic, Technology

  "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.

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• There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.

  Ivan Sutherland

  People, Dozen, Six

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• My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Change, Color, Light

  "Trumbull's Vision" by Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 01, 1997.

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• Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Stars, Light, Color

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• I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Successful, Thinking, Special

  "John Rhys-davies on Indiana Jones and Almost Passing on Lord of the Rings". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Games, Vectors

  "Meet Nolan Bushnell, the man who created the videogames industry". Interview with Steve Boxer, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Gun, Games, Design

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism - the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.

  Lev Manovich

  Reality, Fake, Cameras

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• I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Hands, Drawing, Asking Questions

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• My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Book, Teaching, Reading

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