Sketchpad, computer-aided design and interactive graphics
Sketchpad, diseño asistido por ordenador y gráficos interactivos
- Date
- 1963 · confidence high
- Place
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Ivan Sutherland (doctoral thesis on the TX-2)
- People
- 👤 Ivan Sutherland1938–
- Field
- Tools
What it is
The first program to allow drawing directly on screen with a light pen, with geometric constraints and hierarchical objects. It founded computer graphics, CAD and the graphical interface.
What it led to
- Computer-aided design in architecture, engineering and the car industry
- Computer graphics, digital film and video games
- Object-oriented programming and the graphical interface