Twenty - four Years of Computer Graphics at NRC

Early activities in computer graphics at the National Research Council of Canada, and a summary of the evolution of computer animation work at NRC in the context of work in other centres of research in computer animation are presented. The article also recalls some events from the early Seminars of the Canadian Man-Computer Society, which became the Graphics Interface Conference, which is the longest running Conference in Computer Graphics. This article concludes with a summary of the contribution of the NRC projects to industrial activities.