William Fetter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American computer graphics art director
Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1928
Place of Birth: Independence, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 23-Jun-2002
Profession: engineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About William Fetter
- William Fetter, also known as William Alan Fetter or Bill Fetter (March 14, 1928 – June 23, 2002), was an American graphic designer and pioneer in the field of computer graphics.
- He 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.
- The First Man was a pilot in a short 1964 computer animation, also known as Boeing Man and now as Boeman by the Boeing company.
- Fetter preferred the term "Human Figure" for the pilot.
- In 1960, working in a team supervised by Verne Hudson, he helped coin the term Computer graphics.
- He was art director at the Boeing Company in Wichita.
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