Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972

21 August 2023 grant Featured, Science Art 0

Scientific illustration of a planet illuminated (or perhaps formed) by a circle of orbital lights, shining down in many colors; an illustration of computer networking in a pre-internet age.
Scientific illustration of a planet illuminated (or perhaps formed) by a circle of orbital lights, shining down in many colors; an illustration of computer networking in a pre-internet age.

This is the cover of the 1972 March/April issue of Information Display, Vol 9 No 2, from archive.org.

Stories inside include ways to project different-sized letters on a cathode-ray screen, and training fighter pilots with line drawings in a three-dimensional “virtual space.” Like the arcade game BattleZone, if any of you are old enough to remember that.

I can feel myself turning to dust as I type this….