Larry Roberts
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Lawrence Gilman Roberts (Larry Roberts) is the creator of the Lincoln Wand.
Roberts invented computer vision to transcribe 2D drawings into a 3D computer model. After that, he sought for a better way to get a 3D object in a computer and arrived at the Lincoln Wand.
He published Machine perception of three-dimensional solids in 1963.
He later was CEO of NetExpress.
References[edit]
- Hurst, J.; Mahoney, M. S.; Gilmore, J. T.; Roberts, L. G.; Forrest, R. (1989). "Retrospectives II: the early years in computer graphics at MIT, Lincoln Lab, andd Harvard". ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 23 (5): 39–73. doi:10.1145/77277.77280. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/77277.77280.
- "Machine perception of three-dimensional solids". 1963. https://dspace.mit.edu/entities/publication/840d8056-9b54-4bd4-b16f-2f3d8296386e.