Implementation of a simulated display processor for computer graphics education

  • Authors:

  • Patricia R. Mohilner

  • Affiliations:

  • Colorado State University

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH '75 Proceedings of the 2nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
  • Year:
  • 1975

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Abstract

To provide student experience at the detail level of graphics output, a simulated graphics display processor was written in FORTRAN to run on a CDC 6400 computer equipped with microfilm graphics output. The simulated processor has a command set conforming to the course textbook, a memory of 4096 16-bit words and accepts directions only in absolute octal code. This last feature caused the class to write an octal code generator which accepts graphic primatives as commands.