William Fetter
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William Fetter was an American computer graphics
Computer graphics
Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....

 art director. In 1964, while working for Boeing
Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

, he made the first computer model of a human body ("Boeing Man"). He coined the term Computer Graphics in 1960, to describe his work at Boeing.

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    John Lansdown
    Robert John Lansdown was a British computer graphics pioneer, polymath and Professor Emeritus at Middlesex University Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, which was renamed in his honour in 2000....

    , "Not only computing - also art" (Computer Bulletin, March 1980)
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