Mr Deng's IT News Collection: Medical computer graphics could be seen as the invisible side of VFX. We tend to associate CGI with spaceships, fantasy or history, but in many ways medical imaging is the forefather of all computer graphics. When Steve Jobs bought the team at Pixar from George Lucas, he wanted them to make computers for high-end visualisation such as medical imaging – the animations that Pixar made were just to showcase the hardware.

08 December, 2012

Medical computer graphics could be seen as the invisible side of VFX. We tend to associate CGI with spaceships, fantasy or history, but in many ways medical imaging is the forefather of all computer graphics. When Steve Jobs bought the team at Pixar from George Lucas, he wanted them to make computers for high-end visualisation such as medical imaging – the animations that Pixar made were just to showcase the hardware.

http://www.3dworldmag.com/2012/12/06/discover-medical-computer-graphics/