Lmst

#Quickdraw

This isn't just a #geek #portrait in context of #computer #graphics, it's a hommage to #BillAtkinson and his contributions to #WYSIWYG #DTP and #CGI. As #Apple employee no.51 he created #MacPaint on top of #QuickDraw, #Hypercard and much more. TY and #RIP

The #vector #graphic was made in #SVG with #Inkscape running on #Linux, not #Adobe #Illustrator on #MacOS or #OSX.

Portrait of Bill Atkinson with Apple Mac under the arm, in front of a Lisa computer, with icons, Apple logos and a classic Macintosh IIfx all arranged on an orange background with Inkscape.

Wonderful artist sitters portrait practice online Scottish Borders Life Drawing Club w/ Deryck Henley @derycks.art Dec. 21, 2025, 10 min. ea. @derycksart.bsky.social #onlinedrawing #portrait #digitalart #scottishborderslifedrawingclub #quickportraits #fastportraits #fastsketch #quickdraw #shortpose

Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes https://arstechni.ca/Evoh #softwaredevelopment #userinterfacedesign #talesoftechhistory #Vintagecomputing #computerhistory #talesoftechlore #retrocomputing #AndyHertzfeld #ChrisEspinosa #Folklore.org #talesoftech #calculator #classicmac #Macintosh #QuickDraw #retrotech #SteveJobs #Apple #apple #MacOS #Tech #1982 #1984

The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes https://arstechni.ca/UzcL #softwaredevelopment #userinterfacedesign #talesoftechhistory #Vintagecomputing #computerhistory #talesoftechlore #retrocomputing #AndyHertzfeld #ChrisEspinosa #Folklore.org #talesoftech #calculator #classicmac #Macintosh #QuickDraw #retrotech #SteveJobs #Apple #apple #MacOS #Tech #1982 #1984

QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

#HackerNews #QuickDrawViewer #MacOS #QuickDraw #PICT #files #Utility #Visualisation

New release (1.8) of my QuickDraw Viewer, some bug fixes, and support for QuickTake 100 pictures.

#retrocomputing #classicmac #graphicprocessing #quickdraw

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer/

QuickTake pictures

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41564

#6502 #AppleII #ComputerGraphics #DigitalCamera #Quickdraw #QuickDrawViewer #QuickTake #QuickTime #Retrocomputing #RGB #YUV

A field with with a gray sky and bushes on the side, silhouette of a house.
QuickTake 100 image, rendered too dark

New release of my QuickDrawViewer tool, rendering fixes and a conversion command-line tool.

#retrocomputing #quickdraw #classicmac #computergraphics

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer/releases/tag/1.7

Wonderful artist sitters portrait practice online, Scottish Borders Life Drawing Club with Deryck Henley @derycks.art July 30, 2025, 7 min. ea. @derycksart.bsky.social #onlinedrawing #portrait #digitalart #scottishborderslifedrawingclub #quickportraits #fastportraits #fastsketch #quickdraw #shortpose

QuickDraw Viewer quality check

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41206

#ClassicMac #ComputerGraphics #DeskDraw #Quickdraw #QuickDrawViewer #Retrocomputing

About box of the DeskDraw classic Mac application.

PICT resource of the DeskDraw application rendered in QuickDraw viewer

So now, I'm reverse engineering the Claris Works comments for gradients in Apple QuickDraw pictures.

#retrocomputing #quickdraw #classicmac #ClarisWorks

QuickDraw Viewer Video Codecs

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41172

#ClassicMac #CoreVideo #DigitalVideo #h263 #Quickdraw #QuickTime #Retrocomputing #Swift #VideoCodecs

A Mac OS X Window showing a demonstration QuickTime image encoded using the H263 codec.

did that quick drawing yesterday on my way home. I like apples :D

#mastoart #mastodonart #skizze #sketch #quickdraw #polychromos #apple #zeichnung #practice #art

Are you ready? DEF CON 33 Workshop registration goes live at noon PDT tomorrow, July 15!

The full workshop lineup and HumaniTix links are available on the website (https://defcon.org/html/defcon-33/dc-33-workshops.html) and on Hacker Tracker.

Godspeed and good luck to all of you!

#defcon #workshops #registration #quickdraw #defcon33

image of a workshop style classroom.

QuickDraw Viewer now supports Digital Video encoded QuickTime embedded images.

#retrocomputing #classicmac #mac #quicktime #quickdraw #digitalvideo

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

Released version 1.6 of my QuickDraw view application.
The most significant change is support for pattern operations.

#quickdraw #retrocomputing #classicmac #computergraphics #vectorgraphics

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

Wonderful artist sitters portrait practice online, Scottish Borders Life Drawing Club with Deryck Henley @derycks.art June 25, 202, 7 min. ea. @derycksart.bsky.social #onlinedrawing #portrait #digitalart #scottishborderslifedrawingclub #quickportraits #fastportraits #fastsketch #quickdraw #shortpose

digital portraits

QuickDraw Viewer – Habeamus PixPatternum

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41122

#ClassicMac #ComputerGraphics #Quickdraw #Retrocomputing #Swift

Hexagon filled with a colour pixel pattern

An hexagon in the Preview application of Mac OS X.

Getting Claris Works QuickDraw files

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41107

#Claris #ClarisWorks #ClassicMac #Quickdraw #Resources #retrocomputing

A red blue gradient exported from Claris Work 5

ClarisWorks gradient rendered in Apple's Preview application

I added a small python script to extract PICT files from DeRezed source archives.
This was primarily meant as a way to get me more samples of _interesting_ QuickDraw files, but maybe it can be useful for others.

#quickdraw #retrocomputing #classicmac

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer/blob/main/tools/pict_de_rez.py

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