18 Facts About William Fetter

William Fetter, known as William Alan Fetter or Bill Fetter, was an American graphic designer and pioneer in the field of computer graphics.

William Fetter 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.

William Fetter was art director at the Boeing Company in Wichita.

William Fetter studied at the University of Illinois where he was awarded a BA in graphic design in 1952.

Together with a computer manager, he worked on the development of a program but before the project was completed, William Fetter accepted employment as art director of Boeing in Wichita in 1959.

Over time, William Fetter received universal credit as the first person to use the term "computer graphics".

William Fetter later recognized the need to unequivocally make clear that Verne L Hudson, his superior in the development team, used the words first.

In 1959, William Fetter was recruited by Boeing as art director of the CAD department to explore creative new ideas for the production of 3D drawings.

The January 1965 issue of Architectural Record magazine described how William Fetter had worked as a graphic designer in a team of engineers and programmers to create computer graphics.

Mr William Fetter, who is a graphic artist and not a mathematician, achieved the results he desired by describing the process of perspective drawing on a chalk board, and letting others write a computer program for the mathematically equivalent operations.

In 1963, the research department relocated from Wichita to Seattle, where William Fetter became the manager of Boeing's newly founded Computer Graphics Group.

William Fetter became well known for the creation of the first human figure in a series of computer graphics of an aeroplane pilot.

William Fetter mentioned the need for a team of good employees for this type of project.

William Fetter published this in November 1964 in his book Computer Graphics in Communication in the section "Aircraft Carrier Landing Depiction with images".

In 1965 William Fetter was invited to a meeting at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he was the only one with an education in graphic and art.

William Fetter began to teach at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, in 1970 and at the same time continued his research.

William Fetter was there for two years as Head of Design.

The Human Figure by William Fetter was seen in all exhibitions as Boeing Man.