Sketchpad

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Sketchpad is a pioneering early computer graphics program, created by Ivan Sutherland in the 1960s, that introduced fundamental concepts of interactive graphical user interfaces and computer-aided design.

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instanceOf computer graphics software
computer program
computer-aided design software
interactive graphics system
academicThesisTitle Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System
academicThesisYear 1963
basedOn interactive graphical input
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Ivan Sutherland
demonstratedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
surface form: MIT
developer Ivan Sutherland
developmentStartYear 1961
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
field computer graphics
computer-aided design
graphical user interfaces
human–computer interaction
genre design software
engineering software
hasPart constraint solver for geometry
hierarchical instance system for drawings
inception 1963
influenced computer-aided design systems
graphical user interfaces
human–computer interaction research
interactive design tools
object-oriented programming concepts in graphics
inputDevice keyboard
light pen
institution Lincoln Laboratory
surface form: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
introducedConcept constraint-based drawing
hierarchical modeling
icons and menus for interaction
interactive manipulation of geometric objects
object-oriented graphics
rubber-banding of lines
use of a light pen for direct manipulation
languageOfWorkOrName English
notableFor being one of the first interactive computer graphics programs
early demonstration of direct manipulation interfaces
pioneering constraint-based graphical editing
pioneering hierarchical graphical structures
operatingSystem TX-2 computer
surface form: TX-2 computer system
outputDevice CRT display
platform TX-2 computer
thesisOf Ivan Sutherland
use computer-aided design experiments
engineering drawing
interactive drawing of geometric figures

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