citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message evans and sutherland computer corporation type public traded as otcqb escc founded salt lake city utah founders david evans ivan sutherland headquarters salt lake city utah united states revenue 69.2 million usd 2004 number of employees 275 2006 website www.es.com evans & sutherland is a pioneering american computer firm in the computer graphics field . its current products are used in digital projection environments like planetariums . its simulation business which it sold to rockwell collins sold products that were used primarily by the military and large industrial firms for training and simulation . contents 1 history 2 use in movies and special effects 3 products 3.1 terminals 3.2 workstations 3.3 accelerators 3.4 simulation image generators 3.5 simulation display products 3.6 planetarium products 3.7 supercomputers 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded in 1968 by david c. evans and ivan sutherland professors in the computer science department at the university of utah . the two professors were pioneers in computer graphics technology . they formed the company to produce hardware to run the systems being developed in the university working from an abandoned barracks on the university grounds . the company was later housed in the university of utah research park . most of the employees were active or former students and included jim clark who started silicon graphics ed catmull co founder of pixar john warnock of adobe and scott p. hunter of oracle . in the 1970s they purchased general electric s flight simulator division and formed a partnership with rediffusion simulation a uk based flight simulator company to design and build digital flight simulators . for the next three decades this was e & s s primary market delivering display systems with enough brightness to light up a simulator cockpit to daytime light levels . these simulators were used for training in in flight refueling carrier landing awacs b52 evs submarine periscope and space station docking . in the mid 70s until the end of the 80s e & s produced the picture system 1 2 and ps300 series . these unique calligraphic vector color displays had depth cueing and could draw large wireframe models and manipulate rotate shift zoom them in real time . they were mainly used in chemistry to visualize large molecules such as enzymes or polynucleotides . the end of the picture system line came in the late 80s when raster devices on workstations could render anti aliased lines faster . in 1978 the company went public with a listing on nasdaq . in the 1980s e & s added a digital theater division supplying all digital projectors to create immersive mass audience experiences at planetariums visitor attractions and similar education and entertainment venues . digital theater grew to become a major arm of e & s commercial activity with hundreds of digistar 1 and 2 systems installed around the world such as at the saint louis science center in st. louis missouri . for a brief period between 1986 and 1989 e & s was also a supercomputer vendor but their es 1 was released just as the supercomputer market was drying up in the post cold war military wind down . only a handful of machines were built most broken up for scrap . during the 1990s e & s tried to expand into several other commercial markets . the freedom series graphics engine was developed to work with sun microsystems ibm hewlett packard and dec workstations . 3d pro technology was developed for the first wave of 3d graphics cards for pcs . also the mindset virtual set system was created to address the needs of the broadcast video market . in 1993 evans and sutherland helped japanese arcade giant namco with texture mapping technology in namco s system 22 arcade board that powered ridge racer . the help that e & s gave namco was similar to the help that martin marietta gave sega with the model 2 board that powered daytona usa and desert tank arcade games . in 1998 evans and sutherland acquired accelgraphics inc a manufacturer of computer graphics boards for 52m . 1 since its launch in july 2002 the company s digistar 3 system became the world s fastest selling digital theater system and is installed in upwards of 120 fulldome venues worldwide . citation needed on may 9 2006 evans & sutherland acquired spitz inc a rival vendor in the planetarium market giving the combined business the largest base of installed planetaria worldwide and adding in house projection dome manufacturing capability to e & s offering . in 2006 evans and sutherland sold its simulation business to rockwell collins . 2 use in movies and special effects edit an evans & sutherland computer was used in the creation of the project genesis simulation sequence in star trek ii the wrath of khan which was one of the first computer graphic sequences ever used in a movie . nbc would later use an evans and sutherland for its 1984 1985 promotional campaign let s all be there as well as subsequent campaigns concluding with the 1989 1990 season promotional campaign come home to the best . 3 products edit terminals edit lds 1 line drawing system 1 picture system picture system ii ps 300 picture system ps 390 picture system 390 workstations edit vaxstation 8000 co developed the graphics accelerator with digital equipment corporation esv 3 esv 10 esv 50 accelerators edit freedom series simulation image generators edit novoview sp1 and sp2 the 6000 light systems spx ct5 esig 2000 esig 3000 esig 4000 harmony epx simulation display products edit vistaview head tracked projector targetview targetview 200 escp raster calligraphic projector planetarium products edit digistar digistar ii digistar 3 digistar 4 digistar 5 2012 digistar 6 2016 supercomputers edit es 1 references edit evans & sutherland to acquire accelgraphics . . the new york times . 1998 04 23 . retrieved 2012 11 11 . e & s history . es.com . harrymarks . harrymarks.com . external links edit official website rockwell collins official website v t e evans & sutherland people david c. evans ivan sutherland products digistar ii evans & sutherland es 1 lds 1 line drawing system 1 v t e rockwell international people lynde bradley arthur a. collins clayton m. jones willard rockwell subsidiaries draper corporation northrop loom rockwell automation allen bradley rockwell collins air routing international an art 13 arinc collins 207b 1 transmitter r 390a related admiral radio and tv allen bradley clock tower evans & sutherland north american aviation atomics international rocketdyne rockwell semiconductor retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title evans % 26 sutherland & oldid 743654196 categories computer companies of the united statesgraphics hardware companiescompanies based 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