It was established in May 2012 when a large part of the editorial board resigned from the now-defunct Journal of Graphics Tools.

[1] The editor-in-chief from 2015 to present is Marc Olano (University of Maryland, Baltimore County).

In 2012, a large part of the editorial board resigned to form the open access Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques.

[2] The last editor-in-chief was Francesco Banterle (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione).

Previous editors-in-chief have been Andrew Glassner, Ronen Barzel, Doug Roble, and Morgan McGuire.