"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
Ivan Sutherland’s thesis on Sketchpad may be one of the most famous and innovative papers in the history of computer graphics. LtU reports that there is a new electronic version made available as a PDF file. It’s great to see papers like this made more widely available.
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