1.Correctly identify the primary thesis of  ”Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins”

According  to “Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins” by Beverly Jones, she shows that there is a big influence between computer graphics and art from nowadays and past. Art and computer graphics impact each other in a special way. People want to see the clear and beautiful graphic of a true art, then the improvement of the computer graphics will fill this demand. And when digital graphics are improved, then people is going to have a better chance to see the art work they want to see. This proves that there is a strong connection between art and computer  graphics.

 2. Identify one of the three historical examples Jones provides as an illustration of her thesis.

I can give an example from the article which is a case in 1985 of Tony de Peltrie. The 7-min-50-sec film Tony de Peltrie cost 1.5 million dollars and took years to produce. At that time of period, making this kind of  graphics  movie is really hard and expensive but there is strong demand for that. These movie director want to find a way to  reduce the cost of making such quality of movies and improve the quality of movies  at the same time. So with the time pass, people always trying to find a way to solve  these problems.

3. Provide a compelling and accurate illustration of Jones’ thesis at work in today’s culture.

In today’s  culture, Jones presents that high-tech is a strong trend of form for people to make art  projects  instead of hand-making since hand making can be unreliable at some point. Technology improves so fast  these days so that people want to use more of  these technology so they can  make art project faster and  more accurate.

Jones, B. J. (1990). Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins. LEONARDO: Digital Image –Digital Cinema Supplemental Issue, pp. 21-30.