Myer and Sutherland wrote a classic 1968 paper on what they came to call the Wheel of Reincarnation: simple displays accrue progressively more complexity until

Myer and Sutherland wrote a classic 1968 paper on what they came to call the Wheel of Reincarnation: simple displays accrue progressively more complexity until someone comes along and throws the whole thing away with a new, clean, design. Then someone finds that they can add a bit of processing to that display to make it go just a bit faster... http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland-design-of-display-processors.pdf http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...