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Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design,
known also as ACCAD, is a research center where graduate students
and faculty from across the Ohio
State University, study and conduct research
in areas involving computer graphics and technological innovation.
ACCAD forms partnerships with visual and performing artists,
designers, art historians and critics, computer scientists,
engineers and architects which provide multidisciplinary experiences
for our graduate students.
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Graduates
who have studied at ACCAD make a huge impact on the American
film industry in special effects and computer graphics. Our
former students have had a hand in movies like Shrek I &
II, Finding Nemo, and Ice Age, and work at major studios like
Disney, Industrial Light & Magic, Rhythm and Hues, Electronic
Arts, and Blue Sky Studios. You'll also find our students
in premiere design firms, universities, research groups and
government agencies across America.
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Currently our graduate students are involved in courses and
research projects that cover a broad range of areas. Please
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ACCAD's
History:
The College of the Arts
at The Ohio State University has been an innovator in computer
graphics and animation for the past three decades. Working
as a painter, Professor
Charles Csuri became increasingly fascinated
with the computer and its potential as an artistic tool.
In
1969 Csuri received a prestigious grant from the National
Science Foundation to study the role of the computer and software
for research and education in the visual arts. This was very
unusual, for an artist to receive an NSF grant, and showed
the level of significance of the work at OSU at the time.
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1967, he used a line drawing of a man, and working with a
fellow faculty member from the Department of Mathematics,
modified its shape using a sine curve mapping and a mainframe
computer. Lacking an output medium for recording this primitive
animation, he plotted the intermediate frames on paper using
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In
1971 he proposed a formal organization, called the Computer
Graphics Research Group (CGRG) in order to realize
the potential of the application of computer animation. Members
of CGRG included faculty and graduate students from Art, Industrial
Design, Photography and Cinema, Computer and Information Science,
and Mathematics.
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Linehan (Ohio State University - OSUArts) and Chuck Csuri
converted the Computer Graphics
Research Group into The Advanced Computing Center for the
Arts and Design in 1987, with funding from a long-term Ohio
Board of Regents Academic Challenge grant. ACCAD was established
to provide computer animation resources in teaching, research
and production for all departments in the College of the Arts
at Ohio State.
A
more detailed description of ACCAD's history |
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