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1900 Alicia Boole Stott first publishes about her 3D models of 4D figures |
1939 1939 World's Fair, New York: Futurama Earth status display |
1949 first Lego set |
1951 Don Herbert: Watch Mr. Wizard [broadcast TV show] |
1956 direct brain interface to 3D graphics in Forbidden Planet [theatrical film] |
1956 Bell Science: first appearance of "Magic Screen" controlled by human imagination, in Our Mr. Sun [16mm film] |
1957 Bell Science: Hemo the Magnificent [16mm film] |
1957 Bell Science: Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays [16mm film] |
1958 Bell Science: The Unchained Goddess [16mm film] |
1958 Bell Science: Gateways to the Mind [16mm film] |
1959 Bell Science: The Alphabet Conspiracy [16mm film] |
1959 Walt Disney Productions: Donald in Mathmagic Land [16mm film] |
1959 Jay Ward Productions: Wayback Machine (time travel to historical events), Peabody's Improbable History, a segment on Rocky and His Friends [broadcast TV show] |
1960  Hume and Ivey: Frames of Reference [16mm film] |
1960 Bell Science: Thread of Life [16mm film] |
1961 Ivan Sutherland: first interactive drawing program Sketchpad [mainframe software] |
1961 Charles and Ray Eames: exhibit "Mathematica -- A World of Numbers and beyond" at California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, documented in film IBM Math Peep Shows (Films of Charles & Ray Eames Vol. 4) [16mm film] |
1962 Bell Science: About Time [16mm film] |
1963 3D blackboard on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales [broadcast TV show] |
1964 Buckminster Fuller proposes a Geoscope Earth status display inside a geodesic dome for the U.S. pavilion at Expo '67, Montreal (U.S. gov. uses only his dome design for the exterior) |
1964 Charles and Ray Eames: IBM Pavilion at 1964 New York World's Fair, documented in IBM At the Fair (Films of Charles & Ray Eames Vol. 5) [16mm film] |
1968 Stanley Kubrick: hand-animated 3D computer displays in 2001 A Space Odyssey [theatrical film] |
1968 Charles and Ray Eames: A Computer Glossary (Films of Charles & Ray Eames Vol. 5) [16mm film] |
1969  Dr. Frank Oppenheimer founds The Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA [science museum] |
1971 Charles and Ray Eames: history of computing devices A Computer Perspective [museum exhibit and book] |
1972
Alan Kay, Xerox PARC: Dynabook Project |
1977 Charles and Ray Eames: zoom through all size scales in the universe, in Powers of Ten (Films of Charles & Ray Eames Vol. 1) [16mm film] |
1978 Douglas Adams and BBC Radio: interactive book described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [radio play] |
1979 Charles and Ray Eames: animated map of rise and fall of Roman Empire in Atlas (Films of Charles & Ray Eames Vol. 2) [16mm film] |
1981 Wayne Holder and Bruce Webster: graphical role-playing game with visually operated & repaired space ship, Sundog [Apple II game] |
1985 Jim Blinn and Cal tech: The Mechanical Universe... and Beyond [video series] |
1986 Alan Kay: Vivarium Project |
1986 Bert Tyler: program to explore and zoom into fractals, FRACTINT [DOS PC software] |
1989 program to simulate managing a city, Sim City [Mac PC software] |
1989 Vroom and Kamins: first visually programmed visualization tool, Application Visualization System (AVS) [UNIX workstation software] |
1993 Jim Blinn and Cal Tech: Project MATHEMATICS! [video series] |
1996 Eames Demitrios: zoom through all time scales in the universe, in Powers of Time [video] |
1996 Yuh-Jye Chang and pulsar.org: visually programmed freeware NeatTools [Windows PC software] |
1997 MIT: kid-designed and programmable robots Lego Mindstorms [toy] |
Last update 13-Feb-2003 by ABS (abs@well.com).
