Vector Graphics in 1956

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Check out this awesome article about how, in 1956, someone programmed a $238 million Air Force supercomputer to display an Esquire pin-up girl -- using vectors!

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ds-first-computer-art-its-a-sexy-dame/267439/

"Using equipment designed to guard against the apocalypse, a pin-up girl had been drawn. She was quite probably the first human likeness to ever appear on a computer screen. ... The pin-up image itself was programmed as a series of short lines, or vectors, encoded on a stack of about 97 Hollerith type punched cards."
 
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