DICOMED
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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.
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".
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 camera
s. The company went out of business in 1999.
Color photography
Color photography is photography that uses media capable of representing colors, which are traditionally produced chemically during the photographic processing phase...
recorders such as the D47 and D48.
Use
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 CRAYCray
Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington. The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. , was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray. Seymour Cray went on to form the spin-off Cray Computer Corporation , in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995,...
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
Graphic animation
Graphic animation is a variation of stop motion consisting of the animation of photographs and other non-drawn flat visual graphic material, such as newspaper and magazine clippings.In its simpliest form,...
specialists on to film for the production of the 15 minute IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
film; the "Magic Egg".
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 camera
Digital camera
A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...
s. The company went out of business in 1999.