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118-396: Imouto Paradise! is an erotic visual novel that takes incest as one of its major themes. In Imouto Paradise! , the player assumes the role of Sōichirō Nanase, who is the main protagonist of the first visual novel, and the older brother of the five date-able heroines presented in the game. In Imouto Paradise! 2 , the player assumes the role of Sōichirō's future son, Keiichi Nanase, who

236-476: A branching plot line with multiple endings, and depending on the decisions that the player makes during the game, the plot will progress in a specific direction. There are five plot lines for each heroine that the player will have the chance to experience, and in order to experience all five plot lines, the player will have to replay the game multiple times and experiment with different choices. The player will also encounter various background music (BGM) throughout

354-402: A non-heterosexual perspective, viewing psychoanalytical and modernist views of eroticism as both archaic and heterosexist , written primarily by and for a "handful of elite, heterosexual, bourgeois men" who "mistook their own repressed sexual proclivities" as the norm. Theorists like Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , Gayle S. Rubin and Marilyn Frye all write extensively about eroticism from

472-421: A book called Itou Raifu Art Works , which contains illustrations, rough line art, and pinups for the games Imouto Paradise! and Houkago☆Eroge Bu! ~Eroge Seisaku no Tame Onnanoko to Ecchi Shimakuri na Mainichi~ , another visual novel developed and published by Moonstone Cherry . The book was released on April 18, 2012 for mature readers. Another related work includes an illustration compilation book commemorating

590-406: A broad sense to describe "almost everything on computers that is not text or sound". Typically, the term computer graphics refers to several different things: Today, computer graphics is widespread. Such imagery is found in and on television, newspapers, weather reports, and in a variety of medical investigations and surgical procedures. A well-constructed graph can present complex statistics in

708-479: A communion with the object/other: "the true order of going...to the things of love, is to use the beauties of earth as steps...to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair actions, and from fair actions to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty". Modern French conceptions of eroticism can be traced to the Age of Enlightenment , when "in the eighteenth century, dictionaries defined

826-513: A critical and commercial success of nine-figure magnitude. The studio to invent the programmable shader would go on to have many animated hits, and its work on prerendered video animation is still considered an industry leader and research trail breaker. In video games, in 1992, Virtua Racing , running on the Sega Model 1 arcade system board , laid the foundations for fully 3D racing games and popularized real-time 3D polygonal graphics among

944-520: A discipline until the 1950s and the post- World War II period – during which time the discipline emerged from a combination of both pure university and laboratory academic research into more advanced computers and the United States military 's further development of technologies like radar , aviation , and rocketry developed during the war. New kinds of displays were needed to process the wealth of information resulting from such projects, leading to

1062-463: A display scope image of a Disney cartoon character. Electronics pioneer Hewlett-Packard went public in 1957 after incorporating the decade prior, and established strong ties with Stanford University through its founders, who were alumni . This began the decades-long transformation of the southern San Francisco Bay Area into the world's leading computer technology hub – now known as Silicon Valley . The field of computer graphics developed with

1180-423: A display scope. One of the first interactive video games to feature recognizable, interactive graphics – Tennis for Two – was created for an oscilloscope by William Higinbotham to entertain visitors in 1958 at Brookhaven National Laboratory and simulated a tennis match. In 1959, Douglas T. Ross , while working at MIT on transforming mathematic statements into computer generated 3D machine tool vectors, created

1298-548: A feature-length motion picture using computer graphics – a goal he would achieve two decades later after his founding role in Pixar . In the same class, Fred Parke created an animation of his wife's face. The two animations were included in the 1976 feature film Futureworld . As the UU computer graphics laboratory was attracting people from all over, John Warnock was another of those early pioneers; he later founded Adobe Systems and created

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1416-515: A form that is easier to understand and interpret. In the media "such graphs are used to illustrate papers, reports, theses", and other presentation material. Many tools have been developed to visualize data. Computer-generated imagery can be categorized into several different types: two dimensional (2D), three dimensional (3D), and animated graphics. As technology has improved, 3D computer graphics have become more common, but 2D computer graphics are still widely used. Computer graphics has emerged as

1534-593: A great deal of founding research to the field and taught several students who would grow to found several of the industry's most important companies – namely Pixar , Silicon Graphics , and Adobe Systems . Tom Stockham led the image processing group at UU which worked closely with the computer graphics lab. One of these students was Edwin Catmull . Catmull had just come from The Boeing Company and had been working on his degree in physics. Growing up on Disney , Catmull loved animation yet quickly discovered that he did not have

1652-432: A heterosexual, lesbian and separatist point of view, respectively, seeing eroticism as both a political force and cultural critique for marginalized groups, or as Mario Vargas Llosa summarized: "Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty". Audre Lorde , a lesbian Caribbean-American writer and outspoken feminist , called

1770-447: A high-water mark for the field during the decade. The 1980s is also called the golden era of videogames ; millions-selling systems from Atari , Nintendo and Sega , among other companies, exposed computer graphics for the first time to a new, young, and impressionable audience – as did MS-DOS -based personal computers, Apple IIs , Macs , and Amigas , all of which also allowed users to program their own games if skilled enough. For

1888-405: A highly popular tool for computer graphics among graphic design studios and businesses. Modern computers, dating from the 1980s, often use graphical user interfaces (GUI) to present data and information with symbols, icons and pictures, rather than text. Graphics are one of the five key elements of multimedia technology. In the field of realistic rendering, Japan 's Osaka University developed

2006-406: A leading developer of graphics boards in this decade, creating a "duopoly" in the field which exists this day. CGI became ubiquitous in earnest during this era. Video games and CGI cinema had spread the reach of computer graphics to the mainstream by the late 1990s and continued to do so at an accelerated pace in the 2000s. CGI was also adopted en masse for television advertisements widely in

2124-417: A light pen, Sketchpad allowed one to draw simple shapes on the computer screen, save them and even recall them later. The light pen itself had a small photoelectric cell in its tip. This cell emitted an electronic pulse whenever it was placed in front of a computer screen and the screen's electron gun fired directly at it. By simply timing the electronic pulse with the current location of the electron gun, it

2242-420: A model of a car, one could change the size of the tires without affecting the rest of the car. It could stretch the body of car without deforming the tires. The phrase "computer graphics" has been credited to William Fetter , a graphic designer for Boeing in 1960. Fetter in turn attributed it to Verne Hudson, also at Boeing. In 1961 another student at MIT, Steve Russell , created another important title in

2360-407: A necessity for advanced work in the field, providing considerable complexity in manipulating pixels , vertices , and textures on a per-element basis, and countless possible effects. Their shader languages HLSL and GLSL are active fields of research and development. Physically based rendering or PBR, which implements many maps and performs advanced calculation to simulate real optic light flow,

2478-552: A revolution in the publishing world with his PostScript page description language. Adobe would go on later to create the industry standard photo editing software in Adobe Photoshop and a prominent movie industry special effects program in Adobe After Effects . James Clark was also there; he later founded Silicon Graphics , a maker of advanced rendering systems that would dominate the field of high-end graphics until

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2596-565: A screen. It was the first consumer computer graphics product. David C. Evans was director of engineering at Bendix Corporation 's computer division from 1953 to 1962, after which he worked for the next five years as a visiting professor at Berkeley. There he continued his interest in computers and how they interfaced with people. In 1966, the University of Utah recruited Evans to form a computer science program, and computer graphics quickly became his primary interest. This new department would become

2714-458: A separate and very powerful chip is used in parallel processing with a CPU to optimize graphics. The decade also saw computer graphics applied to many additional professional markets, including location-based entertainment and education with the E&;S Digistar, vehicle design, vehicle simulation, and chemistry. The 1990s' highlight was the emergence of 3D modeling on a mass scale and an rise in

2832-432: A specialized barrel shifter circuit made from discrete chips to help their Intel 8080 microprocessor animate their framebuffer graphics. The 1980s began to see the commercialization of computer graphics. As the home computer proliferated, a subject which had previously been an academics-only discipline was adopted by a much larger audience, and the number of computer graphics developers increased significantly. In

2950-433: A square for example, they do not have to worry about drawing four lines perfectly to form the edges of the box. One can simply specify that they want to draw a box, and then specify the location and size of the box. The software will then construct a perfect box, with the right dimensions and at the right location. Another example is that Sutherland's software modeled objects – not just a picture of objects. In other words, with

3068-463: A state of sexual arousal or anticipation of such – an insistent sexual impulse , desire , or pattern of thoughts. As French novelist Honoré de Balzac stated, eroticism is dependent not just upon an individual's sexual morality , but also the culture and time in which an individual resides. Because the nature of what is erotic is fluid, early definitions of the term attempted to conceive eroticism as some form of sensual or romantic love or as

3186-409: A step back while worrying about that every day. The second sister is tsundere Rio Nanase ( 七瀬 理央 , Nanase Rio , voiced by: Yui Ogura) , she is the stern little sister who watches after the studies of the others. Completely unaccustomed to anything related to sex, she's a late bloomer in that subject matter. Whenever her female siblings start to talk about anything lewd, she gets completely red in

3304-400: A sub-field of computer science which studies methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content. Over the past decade, other specialized fields have been developed like information visualization , and scientific visualization more concerned with "the visualization of three dimensional phenomena (architectural, meteorological, medical, biological , etc.), where the emphasis

3422-463: A suitably high-end system may simulate photorealism to the untrained eye. Texture mapping has matured into a multistage process with many layers; generally, it is not uncommon to implement texture mapping, bump mapping or isosurfaces or normal mapping , lighting maps including specular highlights and reflection techniques, and shadow volumes into one rendering engine using shaders , which are maturing considerably. Shaders are now very nearly

3540-584: A wider audience in the video game industry . The Sega Model 2 in 1993 and Sega Model 3 in 1996 subsequently pushed the boundaries of commercial, real-time 3D graphics. Back on the PC, Wolfenstein 3D , Doom and Quake , three of the first massively popular 3D first-person shooter games, were released by id Software to critical and popular acclaim during this decade using a rendering engine innovated primarily by John Carmack . The Sony PlayStation , Sega Saturn , and Nintendo 64 , among other consoles, sold in

3658-608: Is a collection of Imouto Paradise! figurines and nendoroids designed to look like the sisters. Erotic Eroticism (from Ancient Greek ἔρως ( érōs )  'love, desire' and -ism ) is a quality that causes sexual feelings, as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire , sensuality, and romantic love . That quality may be found in any form of artwork , including painting , sculpture , photography , drama , film , music , or literature . It may also be found in advertising . The term may also refer to

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3776-455: Is also an older brother of five younger sisters. Much of the gameplay is spent reading text that appears on the bottom of the screen, which represents the story's narrative and dialogue . Text is accompanied by character sprites , whom of which Sōichirō or Keiichi can converse with, over background art. Throughout the game, the player will encounter CG artwork , which replaces the background art and character sprites. Imouto Paradise! offers

3894-539: Is an active research area as well, along with advanced areas like ambient occlusion , subsurface scattering , Rayleigh scattering , photon mapping , ray-tracing and many others. Experiments into the processing power required to provide graphics in real time at ultra-high-resolution modes like 4K Ultra HD begun, though beyond reach of all but the highest-end hardware. In cinema, most animated movies are CGI now; many animated CGI films are made per year , but few, if any, attempt photorealism due to continuing fears of

4012-401: Is constantly having perverted thoughts, and on top of that, his sisters are acting oddly assertive. Ito Raifu was responsible for the directing and character designs in both games Imouto Paradise! Onii-chan to Go nin no Imouto no Ecchi Shimakuri na Mainichi , and the sequel, Imouto Paradise! 2 Onii-chan to Go nin no Imouto no Motto! Ecchi Shimakuri na Mainichi . Koizumi Hotaru produced both of

4130-521: Is fantasizing about having sex with him. Soon after, Aya realizes that Sōichirō saw everything. Later, Koharu walks into Sōichirō's room when he is watching porn, that leads to them both having sex. Aya admits to Sōichirō, that even though she's his sister, she thought about him while masturbating, and apologizes before confessing her love, which leads to the two having sex. Whilst the two are laying down together, Sōichirō says that he loves her, and that they are all his precious sisters, which makes Aya question

4248-500: Is filled with books. She's a bookworm whose thoughts can't be read. But if there's anything sexual going on, she goes after the protagonist relentlessly. This is her way of expressing affection. Believing in the absurd information she read in a book that said, ”In order to become lovers with the person you love, it’s best to train your target,” her aim is to make her older brother her own. She has learnt several sexual techniques from what she has read in books. It just so happens that Sōichirō

4366-493: Is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth, perhaps with a dynamic (time) component". The precursor sciences to the development of modern computer graphics were the advances in electrical engineering , electronics , and television that took place during the first half of the twentieth century. Screens could display art since the Lumiere brothers ' use of mattes to create special effects for

4484-554: Is rather curious about it. Another sister includes spunky Koharu Nanase ( 七瀬 小春 , Nanase Koharu , voiced by: Saori Yukito) , Hiyori's older twin sister. Among her siblings she's the most energetic. With few worries, when something crosses her mind, she's a girl that blurts it out without any hesitation. She's open-minded about sex and is a type that is frank and okay with dirty jokes and indecent topics. When her parents are away, she boldly tempts her older brother with sexual advances. It's an established fact that she always outmaneuvers

4602-751: The Bible Black series, Mai-Chan's Daily Life , and other works that are considered 'gross' or 'immoral', due to Imouto Paradise! ' s depictions of incest . This could also be because the Imouto Paradise! 2 manga was designated as an "unhealthy publication" by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government for "glorification of incestuous acts". The title was included on SLC's 'A Beginner's Guide to Eff’d-Up Hentai', which also includes Night Shift Nurses , Bible Black , and Mai Chan's Daily Life . Imouto Paradise! has made appearances in other media. In

4720-544: The DVD Player on September 29, 2011, by Dennou Club. An English translation for Imouto Paradise! was released in Europe by MangaGamer on August 22, 2014 and a hard copy version on March 16, 2015. A visual fan book has been published, ( ISBN   978-4048953047 ), entitled Sister Paradise! Official Visual Fan Book , was published on April 26, 2011 by Kadokawa Group Publishing , and consists of 95 pages. Max has also published

4838-488: The GPGPU technique to pass large amounts of data bidirectionally between a GPU and CPU was invented; speeding up analysis on many kinds of bioinformatics and molecular biology experiments. The technique has also been used for Bitcoin mining and has applications in computer vision . In the 2010s, CGI has been nearly ubiquitous in video, pre-rendered graphics are nearly scientifically photorealistic , and real-time graphics on

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4956-458: The Houkago☆Eroge Bu! ~Eroge Seisaku no Tame Onnanoko to Ecchi Shimakuri na Mainichi~ visual novel, there is a poster on the wall in one of the rooms, depicting Aya from Imouto Paradise! . There are posters depicting characters from other Moonstone games, including Icha Pri! ~Ojousama to Icha Love Ecchi na Mainichi~ , and Princess Evangile . In the background of one of the classrooms, there

5074-573: The LINKS-1 Computer Graphics System , a supercomputer that used up to 257 Zilog Z8001 microprocessors , in 1982, for the purpose of rendering realistic 3D computer graphics . According to the Information Processing Society of Japan: "The core of 3D image rendering is calculating the luminance of each pixel making up a rendered surface from the given viewpoint, light source , and object position. The LINKS-1 system

5192-466: The arcades , advances were made in commercial, real-time 3D graphics. In 1988, the first dedicated real-time 3D graphics boards were introduced for arcades, with the Namco System 21 and Taito Air System. On the professional side, Evans & Sutherland and SGI developed 3D raster graphics hardware that directly influenced the later single-chip graphics processing unit (GPU), a technology where

5310-406: The 10th anniversary of Moonstone. It contains original illustrations and comments from the illustrators of Moonstone's games, comments from various other staff such as scenario writers, and is 144 pages long. The book was published on January 25, 2013. A light novel ( ISBN   978-4894903449 ), for Imouto Paradise! , was published by Paradigm under Paradigm Novels 499 on April 28, 2011. It

5428-506: The Erotic: The Erotic as Power , Lorde identifies the erotic as a source of creative power that is deeply rooted in a spiritual plane of unrecognised or unexpressed feeling and sensation. Influenced by Sigmund Freud , psychotherapists have turned to Greek philosophy for an understanding of eros' heightened aesthetic . For Plato , Eros takes an almost transcendent manifestation when the subject seeks to go beyond itself and form

5546-410: The aid of computers . Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great deal of specialized hardware and software has been developed, with the displays of most devices being driven by computer graphics hardware . It is a vast and recently developed area of computer science. The phrase

5664-569: The attitude of a satellite could be altered as it orbits the Earth. He created the animation on an IBM 7090 mainframe computer. Also at BTL, Ken Knowlton , Frank Sinden, Ruth A. Weiss and Michael Noll started working in the computer graphics field. Sinden created a film called Force, Mass and Motion illustrating Newton's laws of motion in operation. Around the same time, other scientists were creating computer graphics to illustrate their research. At Lawrence Radiation Laboratory , Nelson Max created

5782-449: The basis on which understanding provides a foundation for acknowledging difference. Lorde suggests that if we suppress the erotic rather than recognize its presence, it takes on a different form. Rather than enjoying and sharing with one another, it becomes objectifying, which she says translates into abuse as we attempt to hide and suppress our experiences. CG artwork Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with

5900-557: The box office in this field. The Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within , released in 2001, was the first fully computer-generated feature film to use photorealistic CGI characters and be fully made with motion capture. The film was not a box-office success, however. Some commentators have suggested this may be partly because the lead CGI characters had facial features which fell into the " uncanny valley ". Other animated films like The Polar Express drew attention at this time as well. Star Wars also resurfaced with its prequel trilogy and

6018-587: The development of computer graphics as a discipline. Early projects like the Whirlwind and SAGE Projects introduced the CRT as a viable display and interaction interface and introduced the light pen as an input device . Douglas T. Ross of the Whirlwind SAGE system performed a personal experiment in which he wrote a small program that captured the movement of his finger and displayed its vector (his traced name) on

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6136-453: The development of the Gouraud shading and Blinn–Phong shading models, allowing graphics to move beyond a "flat" look to a look more accurately portraying depth. Jim Blinn also innovated further in 1978 by introducing bump mapping , a technique for simulating uneven surfaces, and the predecessor to many more advanced kinds of mapping used today. The modern videogame arcade as is known today

6254-440: The difficulty of drawing... a clear generic demarcation between the erotic and the pornographic": "the history of the separation of pornography from eroticism... remains to be written". Audre Lorde recognises eroticism and pornography as “two diametrically opposed uses of the sexual”, defining the erotic as “a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.” In her 1978 essay, Uses of

6372-497: The earliest films dating from 1895, but such displays were limited and not interactive. The first cathode ray tube , the Braun tube , was invented in 1897 – it in turn would permit the oscilloscope and the military control panel – the more direct precursors of the field, as they provided the first two-dimensional electronic displays that responded to programmatic or user input. Nevertheless, computer graphics remained relatively unknown as

6490-417: The early 1980s, metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) very-large-scale integration (VLSI) technology led to the availability of 16-bit central processing unit (CPU) microprocessors and the first graphics processing unit (GPU) chips, which began to revolutionize computer graphics, enabling high-resolution graphics for computer graphics terminals as well as personal computer (PC) systems. NEC 's μPD7220

6608-416: The early 1990s. A major advance in 3D computer graphics was created at UU by these early pioneers – hidden surface determination . In order to draw a representation of a 3D object on the screen, the computer must determine which surfaces are "behind" the object from the viewer's perspective, and thus should be "hidden" when the computer creates (or renders) the image. The 3D Core Graphics System (or Core )

6726-600: The early decade with occasional significant competing presence from ATI . As the decade progressed, even low-end machines usually contained a 3D-capable GPU of some kind as Nvidia and AMD both introduced low-priced chipsets and continued to dominate the market. Shaders which had been introduced in the 1980s to perform specialized processing on the GPU would by the end of the decade become supported on most consumer hardware, speeding up graphics considerably and allowing for greatly improved texture and shading in computer graphics via

6844-680: The effects continued to set a bar for CGI in film. In videogames , the Sony PlayStation 2 and 3 , the Microsoft Xbox line of consoles, and offerings from Nintendo such as the GameCube maintained a large following, as did the Windows PC . Marquee CGI-heavy titles like the series of Grand Theft Auto , Assassin's Creed , Final Fantasy , BioShock , Kingdom Hearts , Mirror's Edge and dozens of others continued to approach photorealism , grow

6962-450: The emergence of computer graphics hardware. Further advances in computing led to greater advancements in interactive computer graphics . In 1959, the TX-2 computer was developed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory . The TX-2 integrated a number of new man-machine interfaces. A light pen could be used to draw sketches on the computer using Ivan Sutherland 's revolutionary Sketchpad software . Using

7080-446: The end of the decade, the GPU would begin its rise to the prominence it still enjoys today. The field began to see the first rendered graphics that could truly pass as photorealistic to the untrained eye (though they could not yet do so with a trained CGI artist) and 3D graphics became far more popular in gaming , multimedia , and animation . At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of

7198-567: The erotic a source of power specifically identified with the female, often corrupted or distorted by oppression, since it poses the challenge of change. "For women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives". In "The Uses of the Erotic" within Sister Outsider , she discusses how the erotic comes from the sharing of joy, "whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual" and provides

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7316-450: The erotic as that which concerned love...eroticism was the intrusion into the public sphere of something that was at base private". This theme of intrusion or transgression was taken up in the twentieth century by the French philosopher Georges Bataille , who argued that eroticism performs a function of dissolving boundaries between human subjectivity and humanity, a transgression that dissolves

7434-550: The erratic “camera,” while providing a sense of intensity to the sex scenes, doesn't have nearly the same effect outside of them. Rather, it makes the characters hard to focus on." They concluding the review positively, saying, "If you like incest hentai, Imouto Paradise is an absolute must-see, full stop. Those just generally into high-intensity ero-anime, as well as Teruaki Murakami fans, should check it out as well." Imouto Paradise! and its sequel Imouto Paradise! 2 are often compared to anime or manga such as Night Shift Nurses ,

7552-523: The face. Whenever her older brother is in front of her somehow or another she's always angry at him. Though that is the attitude she takes, she actually really likes her older brother. She tries her best to show those feelings of love towards him, but before anyone knows it, she hits him with an elbow. A typical tsundere who can't be honest with herself. Thirdly, there is mild-mannered Hiyori Nanase ( 七瀬 日和 , Nanase Hiyori , voiced by: Yoshimi Yoshida) , Koharu's younger twin sister. Among her siblings she's

7670-485: The field of computer graphics. By 1973, the first annual SIGGRAPH conference was held, which has become one of the focuses of the organization. SIGGRAPH has grown in size and importance as the field of computer graphics has expanded over time. Subsequently, a number of breakthroughs in the field occurred at the University of Utah in the 1970s, which had hired Ivan Sutherland . He was paired with David C. Evans to teach an advanced computer graphics class, which contributed

7788-472: The films Flow of a Viscous Fluid and Propagation of Shock Waves in a Solid Form . Boeing Aircraft created a film called Vibration of an Aircraft . Also sometime in the early 1960s, automobiles would also provide a boost through the early work of Pierre Bézier at Renault , who used Paul de Casteljau 's curves – now called Bézier curves after Bézier's work in the field – to develop 3d modeling techniques for Renault car bodies. These curves would form

7906-489: The first ray casting algorithm, the first of a class of ray tracing -based rendering algorithms that have since become fundamental in achieving photorealism in graphics by modeling the paths that rays of light take from a light source, to surfaces in a scene, and into the camera. In 1969, the ACM initiated A Special Interest Group on Graphics ( SIGGRAPH ) which organizes conferences , graphics standards , and publications within

8024-498: The first shaders – small programs designed specifically to do shading as a separate algorithm – were developed by Pixar , which had already spun off from Industrial Light & Magic as a separate entity – though the public would not see the results of such technological progress until the next decade. In the late 1980s, Silicon Graphics (SGI) computers were used to create some of the first fully computer-generated short films at Pixar , and Silicon Graphics machines were considered

8142-525: The first time, Sōichirō started to change a little bit, and notes that even if she asks for it, he is never in the mood. She feels like she is being avoided, and doesn't know what to do. Michika notices Aya's strange behavior. After asking to see it, Sōichirō shows Rio what a porn site looks like. She confides to him that she doesn't know much about sex, and wants to know more about it. This leads to Sōichirō and Rio having sexual intercourse. Imouto Paradise! and Imouto Paradise! 2 has had good sales overall. In

8260-402: The foundation for much curve-modeling work in the field, as curves – unlike polygons – are mathematically complex entities to draw and model well. It was not long before major corporations started taking an interest in computer graphics. TRW , Lockheed-Georgia , General Electric and Sperry Rand are among the many companies that were getting started in computer graphics by the mid-1960s. IBM

8378-432: The game and gave it a score of 79 out of 100. Merchandise for Imouto Paradise! and the game's sequel Imouto Paradise! 2 has also been presented to Japanese market, before and after the games initial releases. Merchandise for Imouto Paradise! and Imouto Paradise! 2 include dakimakura covers, pillow covers, pin-ups, telephone cards with illustrations on them, and several sexual toys. The anime of Imouto Paradise!

8496-425: The game, different BGMs will play depending on the atmosphere or tone of the scene. All characters are voiced in the game, with the exception of the protagonist, Sōichirō and Sōichirō's father. Throughout gameplay, the player is given multiple options to choose from, and text progression pauses at these points until a choice is made. Some decisions can lead the game to end prematurely and offer an alternative ending to

8614-414: The games. The scenario for Imouto Paradise! was handled by Kuzumi Takeyuki, Minase Takumi, and Wakase Ryō, it was supervised by Kure. The scenario for Imouto Paradise! 2 was handled by Minase Takumi, Takamura Hadzuki, and Izumi Manyoru. CGs in the game were produced by Rastel, Hinata Nao, En Dori, Ēkichi, and the same group handled CGs for Imouto Paradise! 2 , with the addition of Meiki Hito. The design

8732-565: The history of video games , Spacewar! Written for the DEC PDP-1, Spacewar was an instant success and copies started flowing to other PDP-1 owners and eventually DEC got a copy. The engineers at DEC used it as a diagnostic program on every new PDP-1 before shipping it. The sales force picked up on this quickly enough and when installing new units, would run the "world's first video game" for their new customers. (Higginbotham's Tennis For Two had beaten Spacewar by almost three years, but it

8850-467: The human sex drive ( libido ); for example, the Encyclopédie of 1755 states that the erotic "is an epithet which is applied to everything with a connection to the love of the sexes; one employs it particularly to characterize...a dissoluteness, an excess". Libertine literature such as those by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester evoked eroticism to the readers. Because eroticism is wholly dependent on

8968-480: The intelligence in the workstation, rather than continuing to rely on central mainframe and minicomputers . Typical of the early move to high-resolution computer graphics, intelligent workstations for the computer-aided engineering market were the Orca 1000, 2000 and 3000 workstations, developed by Orcatech of Ottawa, a spin-off from Bell-Northern Research , and led by David Pearson, an early workstation pioneer. The Orca 3000

9086-399: The late 1990s and 2000s, and so became familiar to a massive audience. The continued rise and increasing sophistication of the graphics processing unit were crucial to this decade, and 3D rendering capabilities became a standard feature as 3D-graphics GPUs became considered a necessity for desktop computer makers to offer. The Nvidia GeForce line of graphics cards dominated the market in

9204-423: The later films of the original trilogy. Two other pieces of video would also outlast the era as historically relevant: Dire Straits ' iconic, near-fully-CGI video for their song " Money for Nothing " in 1985, which popularized CGI among music fans of that era, and a scene from Young Sherlock Holmes the same year featuring the first fully CGI character in a feature movie (an animated stained-glass knight ). In 1988,

9322-665: The main character's parents are overseas. As an older brother, Sōichirō Nanase ( 七瀬 総一郎 ) is to spend the summer vacation alone with only his five younger sisters for company, the first being the motherly Aya Nanase ( 七瀬 綾 , Nanase Aya , voiced by: Toa Yukimura) . Aya is a cheerful, always smiling, gentle little sister. She enjoys cooking, doing the laundry, cleaning, and other household chores. With both parents away, she looks after everyone. She's always loved her older brother as another guy, and thinking about how she'd want to be lovers with him, it appears that she's interested in sex. ”But I’m his blood-related little sister!” as she takes

9440-685: The mid-1980s. In 1984, Hitachi released the ARTC HD63484, the first complementary MOS (CMOS) GPU. It was capable of displaying high-resolution in color mode and up to 4K resolution in monochrome mode, and it was used in a number of graphics cards and terminals during the late 1980s. In 1986, TI introduced the TMS34010 , the first fully programmable MOS graphics processor. Computer graphics terminals during this decade became increasingly intelligent, semi-standalone and standalone workstations. Graphics and application processing were increasingly migrated to

9558-572: The millions and popularized 3D graphics for home gamers. Certain late-1990s first-generation 3D titles became seen as influential in popularizing 3D graphics among console users, such as platform games Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time , and early 3D fighting games like Virtua Fighter , Battle Arena Toshinden , and Tekken . Technology and algorithms for rendering continued to improve greatly. In 1996, Krishnamurty and Levoy invented normal mapping – an improvement on Jim Blinn's bump mapping . 1999 saw Nvidia release

9676-466: The month and year of its release, Imouto Paradise! came No. 6 on the monthly sale ranking of January 2011, on Gethu.com, a major redistributor of visual novel and domestic anime products. In the following month of February, the game came No. 12, and in March, it ranked No. 19. On Getchu.com, Imouto Paradise! was voted as the 3rd most recommended visual novel game to play, as of January 2011. Astarcube reviewed

9794-439: The most important research centers in graphics for nearly a decade thereafter, eventually producing some of the most important pioneers in the field. There Sutherland perfected his HMD; twenty years later, NASA would re-discover his techniques in their virtual reality research. At Utah, Sutherland and Evans were highly sought after consultants by large companies, but they were frustrated at the lack of graphics hardware available at

9912-437: The most timid. Quick to get flustered. She's always worried about something. Even when there's nothing there she trips and falls. When she was younger, anytime there was a problem her older brother helped her so she is rather pampered. She relies on her older brother so much that she believes that what he says is completely true to the point that when he tells total lies she totally believes him. Hiyori has no experience in sex, but

10030-445: The music for the second game. In both Imouto Paradise! and Imouto Paradise! 2 , the opening movies were by Hishino Yūki. Kaori was the system supervisor for the two games. Moonstone Cherry released Imouto Paradise! Onii-chan to Go nin no Imouto no Ecchi Shimakuri na Mainichi as a DVD ROM for the PC on January 28, 2011. Before the official release, a trial edition for Imouto Paradise!

10148-524: The nineties were created, in France, the very first computer graphics TV series: La Vie des bêtes by studio Mac Guff Ligne (1988), Les Fables Géométriques (1989–1991) by studio Fantôme, and Quarxs , the first HDTV computer graphics series by Maurice Benayoun and François Schuiten (studio Z-A production, 1990–1993). In film, Pixar began its serious commercial rise in this era under Edwin Catmull , with its first major film release, in 1995 – Toy Story –

10266-486: The original game have been produced by MediaBank, directed by Murakami Teruaki, and labelled under Gold Bear. Anime Antenna linkai helped produce the anime. Both episodes ran for 30 minutes each. The episodes were sold in separate DVD volumes in Japan . Imouto Paradise!'s first DVD volume was released by MediaBank on December 9, 2011, containing the first OVA episode. Its DVD cover art depicts Aya and Koharu. MediaBank released

10384-468: The others. Multi-skilled, she participates in both the tennis and swimming clubs. Due to that, she always eats a lot, but unfortunately none of those nutrients go into her chest. The last sister is the quiet, mysterious Michika Nanase ( 七瀬 みちか , Nanase Michika , voiced by: Shiho Nakaya) , a little sister who shows very little emotion. Her expression generally doesn't change. She appears to love books as she's always seen walking around with one. Her room

10502-508: The plot. To view all plot lines in their entirety, the player will have to replay the game multiple times and choose different choices to further the plot to an alternate direction. Along with choices, the player will also have to select a heroine from the map select screen, which can also affect the ending the player attains. Throughout gameplay, there are scenes depicting the protagonist and a given heroine having sex. School has recently just let out for summer vacation, and due to business trips,

10620-442: The quality of CGI generally. Home computers became able to take on rendering tasks that previously had been limited to workstations costing thousands of dollars; as 3D modelers became available for home systems, the popularity of Silicon Graphics workstations declined and powerful Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh machines running Autodesk products like 3D Studio or other home rendering software ascended in importance. By

10738-402: The rational world but is always temporary, as well as that, "Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself". For Bataille, as well as many French theorists, "Eroticism, unlike simple sexual activity, is a psychological quest...eroticism is assenting to life even in death". Queer theory and LGBTQ studies consider the concept from

10856-475: The second DVD volume on April 20, 2012, containing the second OVA episode. The DVD cover art depicts Rio, Hiyori, and Michika. The anime is localized in English on R18.com. Sōichirō is woken up by Aya, after having a very erotic dream of her and Rio. Hiyori asks him what masturbation is, which leads to an awkward conversation at the breakfast table. Sōichirō accidentally catches Aya masturbating in her room, whilst she

10974-507: The seminal GeForce 256 , the first home video card billed as a graphics processing unit or GPU, which in its own words contained "integrated transform , lighting , triangle setup / clipping , and rendering engines". By the end of the decade, computers adopted common frameworks for graphics processing such as DirectX and OpenGL . Since then, computer graphics have only become more detailed and realistic, due to more powerful graphics hardware and 3D modeling software . AMD also became

11092-474: The talent for drawing. Now Catmull (along with many others) saw computers as the natural progression of animation and they wanted to be part of the revolution. The first computer animation that Catmull saw was his own. He created an animation of his hand opening and closing. He also pioneered texture mapping to paint textures on three-dimensional models in 1974, now considered one of the fundamental techniques in 3D modeling . It became one of his goals to produce

11210-543: The time, so they started formulating a plan to start their own company. In 1968, Dave Evans and Ivan Sutherland founded the first computer graphics hardware company, Evans & Sutherland . While Sutherland originally wanted the company to be located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Salt Lake City was instead chosen due to its proximity to the professors' research group at the University of Utah. Also in 1968 Arthur Appel described

11328-521: The underlying sciences of geometry , optics , physics , and perception . Computer graphics is responsible for displaying art and image data effectively and meaningfully to the consumer. It is also used for processing image data received from the physical world, such as photo and video content. Computer graphics development has had a significant impact on many types of media and has revolutionized animation , movies , advertising , and video games , in general. The term computer graphics has been used in

11446-549: The video game industry and impress, until that industry's revenues became comparable to those of movies. Microsoft made a decision to expose DirectX more easily to the independent developer world with the XNA program, but it was not a success. DirectX itself remained a commercial success, however. OpenGL continued to mature as well, and it and DirectX improved greatly; the second-generation shader languages HLSL and GLSL began to be popular in this decade. In scientific computing ,

11564-418: The viewer's culture and personal tastes pertaining to what, exactly, defines the erotic, critics have often confused eroticism with pornography , with anti-pornography activist Andrea Dworkin saying, "Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer." This confusion, as Lynn Hunt writes, "demonstrate[s]

11682-448: The widespread adoption of normal mapping , bump mapping , and a variety of other techniques allowing the simulation of a great amount of detail. Computer graphics used in films and video games gradually began to be realistic to the point of entering the uncanny valley . CGI movies proliferated, with traditional animated cartoon films like Ice Age and Madagascar as well as numerous Pixar offerings like Finding Nemo dominating

11800-421: The word sisters in her head. Sōichirō has yet another erotic dream, with Hiyori and Koharu in it this time. He is once again woken by Aya, however, this time, she has noticed that he has had an erection and wants to please him, by having sex. But before long, Sōichirō has had enough and thanks her. Aya pretends to her sisters that nothing has happened, but she has realized that since they had sexual intercourse for

11918-418: The world's primary research center for computer graphics through the 1970s. Also, in 1966, Ivan Sutherland continued to innovate at MIT when he invented the first computer-controlled head-mounted display (HMD). It displayed two separate wireframe images, one for each eye. This allowed the viewer to see the computer scene in stereoscopic 3D . The heavy hardware required for supporting the display and tracker

12036-423: Was almost unknown outside of a research or academic setting.) At around the same time (1961–1962) in the University of Cambridge, Elizabeth Waldram wrote code to display radio-astronomy maps on a cathode ray tube. E. E. Zajac, a scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratory (BTL), created a film called "Simulation of a two-giro gravity attitude control system" in 1963. In this computer-generated film, Zajac showed how

12154-484: Was based on the 16-bit Motorola 68000 microprocessor and AMD bit-slice processors, and had Unix as its operating system. It was targeted squarely at the sophisticated end of the design engineering sector. Artists and graphic designers began to see the personal computer, particularly the Amiga and Macintosh , as a serious design tool, one that could save time and draw more accurately than other methods. The Macintosh remains

12272-409: Was birthed in the 1970s, with the first arcade games using real-time 2D sprite graphics. Pong in 1972 was one of the first hit arcade cabinet games. Speed Race in 1974 featured sprites moving along a vertically scrolling road. Gun Fight in 1975 featured human-looking animated characters, while Space Invaders in 1978 featured a large number of animated figures on screen; both used

12390-493: Was called the Sword of Damocles because of the potential danger if it were to fall upon the wearer. After receiving his Ph.D. from MIT, Sutherland became Director of Information Processing at ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), and later became a professor at Harvard. In 1967 Sutherland was recruited by Evans to join the computer science program at the University of Utah – a development which would turn that department into one of

12508-760: Was coined in 1960 by computer graphics researchers Verne Hudson and William Fetter of Boeing. It is often abbreviated as CG, or typically in the context of film as computer generated imagery (CGI). The non-artistic aspects of computer graphics are the subject of computer science research. Some topics in computer graphics include user interface design , sprite graphics , rendering , ray tracing , geometry processing , computer animation , vector graphics , 3D modeling , shaders , GPU design, implicit surfaces , visualization , scientific computing , image processing , computational photography , scientific visualization , computational geometry and computer vision , among others. The overall methodology depends heavily on

12626-500: Was developed in 1986 – an important step towards implementing global illumination , which is necessary to pursue photorealism in computer graphics. The continuing popularity of Star Wars and other science fiction franchises were relevant in cinematic CGI at this time, as Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic became known as the "go-to" house by many other studios for topnotch computer graphics in film. Important advances in chroma keying ("bluescreening", etc.) were made for

12744-463: Was developed to realize an image rendering methodology in which each pixel could be parallel processed independently using ray tracing . By developing a new software methodology specifically for high-speed image rendering, LINKS-1 was able to rapidly render highly realistic images." The LINKS-1 was the world's most powerful computer , as of 1984. Also in the field of realistic rendering, the general rendering equation of David Immel and James Kajiya

12862-432: Was easy to pinpoint exactly where the pen was on the screen at any given moment. Once that was determined, the computer could then draw a cursor at that location. Sutherland seemed to find the perfect solution for many of the graphics problems he faced. Even today, many standards of computer graphics interfaces got their start with this early Sketchpad program. One example of this is in drawing constraints. If one wants to draw

12980-401: Was handled by GETUMEN and Sākitto, in both games. Tetsuya provided background art in both games, with assistance from Izumoji Zensuke in the second game. Rastel, En Dori, Softhouse - Seal, and Grandee provided game animation, in Imouto Paradise! 2 the game animation was provided by Motchi Yuki. Kishimoto Mari, and Aoshima Shūzō provided the music for the first game, whilst Aoshima Shūzō provided

13098-527: Was quick to respond to this interest by releasing the IBM 2250 graphics terminal, the first commercially available graphics computer. Ralph Baer , a supervising engineer at Sanders Associates , came up with a home video game in 1966 that was later licensed to Magnavox and called the Odyssey . While very simplistic, and requiring fairly inexpensive electronic parts, it allowed the player to move points of light around on

13216-478: Was released at Comic Market 79 . Two adult drama CDs entitled Oyasumi Mae ni Imōto ni Nuite Morau ( おやすみ前に妹にヌいてもらう ) were produced by Sofmap , and adapted from the first game, Imouto Paradise! . The first drama CD was produced containing Aya and Rio's stories on August 12, 2011, and the second drama CD was produced on December 16, 2011, containing Hiyori, Koharu and Michika's stories. Two Imouto Paradise! hentai original video animation episodes based on

13334-404: Was released on December 28, 2010. It was rated 18+, as all games in the Imouto Paradise! franchise are, including the download edition for Imouto Paradise! , which was released on December 9, 2011, and the H Anime Enhanced edition, which was released on March 29, 2013. An Android version of Imouto Paradise! was produced by M-Trix on July 29, 2011, and two months later the game was released for

13452-432: Was released, including the full version of the song, which is three minutes and forty nine seconds long. There was also a karaoke version, which was the same length as the full version, an arranged version, with a length of one minute and fifty three seconds long, and lastly, a guitar arranged version, one minute and twenty seven seconds long. The disc length in entirety is ten minutes and fifty eight seconds long. The vocal CD

13570-624: Was reviewed by Timeenforceranubis of SLC, a hentai review site. It was a generally positive review, saying, "The girls’ voices are spot-on, each having her own manner of speaking (“Tsundere,” “Playful/Seductive,” “Loving,” etc.), but all of them eventually ending up at “desperate and horny,” which they all pull off masterfully." The critic also praises the character designs, facial expressions, and visual styles. However, they criticized, "The visual style isn’t without it’s [ sic ] problems, however. Very specifically, Hiyori’s eyes are very large, which could be an issue for some people. In addition,

13688-560: Was the first GPU, fabricated on a fully integrated NMOS VLSI chip . It supported up to 1024x1024 resolution , and laid the foundations for the emerging PC graphics market. It was used in a number of graphics cards , and was licensed for clones such as the Intel 82720, the first of Intel's graphics processing units . MOS memory also became cheaper in the early 1980s, enabling the development of affordable framebuffer memory, notably video RAM (VRAM) introduced by Texas Instruments (TI) in

13806-522: Was the first graphical standard to be developed. A group of 25 experts of the ACM Special Interest Group SIGGRAPH developed this "conceptual framework". The specifications were published in 1977, and it became a foundation for many future developments in the field. Also in the 1970s, Henri Gouraud , Jim Blinn and Bui Tuong Phong contributed to the foundations of shading in CGI via

13924-490: Was written by Kurotaki Itoyoshi and illustrated by Ito Raifu. A manga adaptation for Imouto Paradise! , illustrated by Itotin, was published by Max and serialized in the Comic Potpourri Club magazine from March 2011 to May 2011. The manga contains pornographic material, and consists of three chapters. On December 29, 2010, a vocal CD containing four different variations of the opening theme for Imouto Paradise!

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