Computer Graphics Laboratory Entrance
The wooden door at the rear is the entry to the main room. The large, multiple disk rotating memory unit is in the foreground. The joystick on the LDS-1 table at the right of the picture was hand made in a Princeton University machine shop. This was the era before commercial video games were available, and joysticks for computers were not inexpensive off-the-shelf items. The circular clear-plastic objects in front of the joystick are 3-D Lorgnettes, which blanked out one eye after the other as a disk rotated inside. This, when synchronized with the display, produced better headaches than 3-D images.
Computer Graphics Laboratory Entrance
The wooden door at the rear is the entry to the main room. The large, multiple disk rotating memory unit is in the foreground. The joystick on the LDS-1 table at the right of the picture was hand made in a Princeton University machine shop. This was the era before commercial video games were available, and joysticks for computers were not inexpensive off-the-shelf items. The circular clear-plastic objects in front of the joystick are 3-D Lorgnettes, which blanked out one eye after the other as a disk rotated inside. This, when synchronized with the display, produced better headaches than 3-D images.