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YouTube Video on Iven Sutherland's Sketchpad

Iven Sutherland is considered as a "Father of Computer Graphics" The project sketchpad in 1963 earned him Turing Award in 1968. His sketchpad thesis can be found here: Sketchpad, a Man-Machine Graphical Communication System. He showed through this project that Human-Computer Interaction is possible and the objects on the screen can be applied with Affine Transformations and can be morphed. Thanks to Bill Buxton for uploading this wonderful video.

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