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{{Infobox company
| name = New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab
| industry = [[Computer animation]]
| founded = {{start date and age|1974}}
| founder = [[Alexander Schure]]
}}
The '''Computer Graphics Lab''' is a [[computer]] [[laboratory|lab]] located at the [[New York Institute of Technology]] (NYIT), founded by [[Alexander Schure]]. It was originally located at the "pink building" on the NYIT campus. It has played an important role in the [[history of computer graphics]] and animation, as founders of [[Pixar]] and [[Lucasfilm]], including [[Turing Award]] winners [[Edwin Catmull]] and [[Patrick Hanrahan]], began their research there.<ref>[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Pixar-Animation-Studios-Company-History.html Pixar Animation Studios – Company History]. Fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved on 2011-04-03.</ref> It is the [[History of computer animation|birthplace]] of entirely 3D [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] films.<ref name="autogenerated4">{{cite web |url=http://www.nyit.edu/index.php/calendar/details/nyit_and_the_birth_of_digital_cinema_with_tom_sito/ |title=NYIT and the Birth of Digital Cinema with Tom Sito | Events | NYIT |publisher=Nyit.edu |date=2015-11-09 |access-date=2016-02-14 |archive-date=8 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108004504/http://www.nyit.edu/index.php/calendar/details/nyit_and_the_birth_of_digital_cinema_with_tom_sito |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/to-infinity-how-pixar-brought-computers-to-the-movies-toy-story-20th-anniversary/|title=To infinity: How Pixar brought computers to the movies|last=Nieva|first=Richard|date=2015-11-12|website=[[CNET]]|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|access-date=2016-02-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyit.edu/box/multimedia/nyits_computer_graphics_history_is_out_of_this_world |title=NYIT's Computer Graphics History Is Out of This World | Multimedia | Box Blog | NYIT |publisher=Nyit.edu |date=2015-11-17 |access-date=2016-02-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyit.edu/files/uploads/00/magazine/NYIT_Magazine_Out_of_This_World.pdf |title=NYIT Magazine |volume=2 |date=2003 |website=Nyit.edu |access-date=2016-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035936/http://www.nyit.edu/files/uploads/00/magazine/NYIT_Magazine_Out_of_This_World.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The lab was initially founded to produce a short high-quality feature film with the project name of ''[[The Works (film)|The Works]]''. The feature, which was never completed, was a 90-minute feature that was to be the first entirely computer-generated [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] movie. Production mainly focused around [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[Programmed Data Processor|PDP]] and [[VAX]] machines.

Many of the original CGL team now form the elite of the CG and computer world with members going on to [[Silicon Graphics]], [[Microsoft]], [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]], [[NVIDIA]] and others, including [[Pixar]] president, co-founder and [[Turing Award|Turing laureate]] [[Ed Catmull]], Pixar co-founder and Microsoft graphics fellow [[Alvy Ray Smith]], Pixar co-founder [[Ralph Guggenheim]], [[Walt Disney Animation Studios]] chief scientist [[Lance Williams (graphics researcher)|Lance Williams]], [[Netscape]] and [[Silicon Graphics]] founder [[James H. Clark|Jim Clark]], [[Tableau Software|Tableau]] co-founder and Turing laureate [[Pat Hanrahan]], Microsoft graphics fellow [[Jim Blinn]], Thad Beier, [[Academy Award|Oscar]] and [[Bafta]] nominee [[Jacques Stroweis]], [[Andrew Glassner]], and Tom Brigham. Systems programmer [[Bruce Perens]] went on to co-found the [[Open Source Initiative]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyofcg.com/pages/new-york-institute-of-technology-nyit/|title = People Behind the Pixels}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/masson/nyit.html|title=Brief History of the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab}}</ref>

Researchers at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab created the tools that made entirely 3D [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] films possible.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyit.edu/index.php/calendar/details/nyit_and_the_birth_of_digital_cinema_with_tom_sito/ |title=NYIT and the Birth of Digital Cinema with Tom Sito {{!}} Events {{!}} NYIT |website=www.nyit.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108004504/http://www.nyit.edu/index.php/calendar/details/nyit_and_the_birth_of_digital_cinema_with_tom_sito |archive-date=2015-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnet.com/news/to-infinity-how-pixar-brought-computers-to-the-movies-toy-story-20th-anniversary/|title = To infinity: How Pixar brought computers to the movies}}</ref> Among NYIT CG Lab's many innovations was an eight-bit paint system to ease computer animation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyit.edu/box/news/birth_of_digital_cinema|title = Animator Tom Sito Presents the Birth of Digital Cinema | Box | New York Tech}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyit.edu/news/features/light_years_ahead|title = Light-years Ahead}}</ref> NYIT CG Lab was regarded as the top computer animation research and development group in the world [[history of computer animation|during the late 70s and early 80s]].<ref name="NYIT-progs">[https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/masson/nyit.html Brief History of the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab] (retrieved 30 June 2012)</ref><ref>[https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/ A compilation of NYIT images and information can be found on Paul Heckbert's site](retrieved 30 June 2012)</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) |url=https://excelsior.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~carlson/history/tree/nyit.html |website=biosci.ohio-state.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012222953/https://excelsior.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~carlson/history/tree/nyit.html |archive-date=12 October 2016}}</ref>

==The 21st century==
The lab is presently located at NYIT's Long Island campus,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyit.edu/architecture/facilities_resources|title = Facilities & Resources}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyit.edu/news/features/light_years_ahead|title = Light-years Ahead}}</ref> and NYIT currently offers a Ph.D. program in Computer Science.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyit.edu/degrees/computer_science_phd|title = Computer Science, Ph.D.}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.historyofcg.com/pages/new-york-institute-of-technology-nyit/ NYIT Computer Graphics Lab, People Behind The Pixels ]
*[https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/masson/nyit.html Brief History of the Computer Graphics Lab at NYIT]

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