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Bill Atkinson was one of the most brilliant, imaginative, and compelling people I ever had the privilege to work with. His vision touched every device you use today. And his heart, his open love and humanity, exceeded all of that.

You all have Steve to thank for BitCam’s Atkinson Dither.

It’s a simple algorithm, but making it performant on modern graphics hardware is hard.

Had a similar problem replicating XOR drawing with layered compositing.

Both are a good reminder of how far we’ve come since 1984. https://discuss.systems/@steve/114643999853687896

Remembering how exciting Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard was is exciting all over again. Here are some of the winners of a 1989 Macworld hyperstack contest, in a hyperstack I just pulled up on my iPad courtesy of the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/MacWorldSuperStacks#

MacPaint and HyperCard made the Mac worth having and were bundled with it. And under the hood was QuickDraw, which every Mac application relied on. Bill Atkinson was like Prince in the quality and quantity of what he produced.

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