Dicomed
Dicomed (or DICOMED) was founded in 1968 and in the early 1970s became a leading manufacturer of precision color film recorders such as the D47 and D48.
Use
One of Dicomed's first products was the D30, a digital image display utilizing a dark-trace CRT with a display resolution of 1024x1024, introduced in 1968. It was originally developed for the display of digitized medical X-ray images that were image-processed digitally in order to enhance contrast and other parameters of the x-ray image.
Dicomed would later produce several CRT-based film recorders, interfaced to computers to record graphic output from the computer's memory to film. Many of the early government (JPL, NCAR, NSA, CIA, Sandia Laboratories, et al.) computer graphics applications had their imagery outputted to a Dicomed. Most of these entities also had CRAY super computers with enough power to compute 4096 X 4096 color imagery.
A major role for the Dicomed D148 color film recorder, in 1984, was to image the work of 26 computer graphic animation specialists on to film for the production of the 15 minute IMAX film; the "Magic Egg".[1][2] [3]
- Later use
Later in the 1980s Dicomed became a producer of color workstations (D38, Producer, Imaginator, etc.) for artists and illustrators to create digital color imagery.
In the mid-1990s Dicomed was a manufacturer of digital cameras. The company went out of business in 1999.[4]
References
- Inline
- ^ http://www.imax.com/films/now_playing/magic_egg.html [dead link]
- ^ Heckbert, Paul. "The Magic Egg - A Personal Account". design.osu.edu.
- ^ "The Magic Egg". Big Movie Zone.com.
- ^ "Better Light Company History". Better Light.com.
- Other