William Fetter | |
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Born | William Alan Fetter March 14, 1928 Independence, Missouri, U.S. |
Died | June 23, 2002 Bellevue, Washington, U.S. | (aged 74)
Occupation(s) | Director and CEO of Siroco, a research corporation, Chair of Design Department for SIU Communications Design Director, Boeing, Seattle |
Spouse | Barbara Shaffer Fetter (born Shaffer) (1965–2002, his death) |
Children | 2 |
William Fetter, also known as William Alan Fetter or Bill Fetter (March 14, 1928 – June 23, 2002), was an American graphic designer and pioneer in the field of computer graphics. He explored the perspective fundamentals of computer animation of a human figure from 1960 on and was the first to create a human figure as a 3D model.[1] The First Man was a pilot in a short 1964 computer animation, also known as Boeing Man and now as Boeman by the Boeing company. Fetter preferred the term "Human Figure" for the pilot.[2] In 1960, working in a team supervised by Verne Hudson, he helped coin the term Computer graphics. He was art director at the Boeing Company in Wichita.[3][4]