Intel-based PCs were expensive and many schools relied on graphics terminals connected to a mainframe via serial lines. Curriculum 91 mentions “a high quality color display” as a special laboratory item. In universities graphics hardware was still considered special purpose equipment and was not ubiquitous as it is today. Graphics in the late 80s The computing environment of ten years ago presented several substantial technology challenges to a graphics instructor. So in fact it has been ten years or even longer since substantive discussions on this topic have taken place. Further, Steve Cunningham, author of the computer graphics course that appears in Curriculum 91, points out that although the document was published in 1991, it reflects accepted practice from the late 1980s. Nine years represents a significant percentage of the discipline’s life span.
OpenGL: Agent of Change or Sign of the Times? Rosalee Wolfe DePaul University Although curriculum is a recurring theme of conversation in the hallways at conferences involving graphics and education, Curriculum 91 marks the most recent formal discussion regarding the topics in an introductory computer graphics course, and it was published in February 1991, nearly nine years ago. Reprinted from the November 1998 issue of Computer Graphics
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