When Edwin Catmull arrived at the University of Utah’s graphics lab as a grad student in 1970, its state-of-the-art monochrome monitors showed only blocky shapes made from polygons. He spent the next ...

Computer scientists at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have developed a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics which dramatically cuts computing costs for generating bright ...

Stanford's going to need a faculty lounge just for billionaires soon. In recent days, Pat Hanrahan, cofounder and Chief Scientist of Tableau and professor at the Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, ...

The ability to create professional grade graphics is of key importance for scientific communication. The R programming package offers a powerful, flexible, and free platform which can be used to ...