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

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

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

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

QuickDraw Viewer – Habeamus PixPatternum

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

#ClassicMac #ComputerGraphics #Quickdraw #Retrocomputing #Swift

Getting Claris Works QuickDraw files

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

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

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

Just a little quickie 👁️
#acrylic #acrylicpainting #quickdraw #sexyeyes #MastoArt #artwork

QuickDraw Viewer – ICC Profiles

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41085

#ClassicMac #color #ColorCorrection #ColorSpace #ComputerGraphics #ICC #PDF #Quickdraw #Retrocomputing

For my QuickDraw renderer, I'm looking for a Pict file with an embedded ColorSync profile, would anyone have such a file?

#quickdraw #classicmac #retrocomputing

Kopf hinter #Quickdraw:

#Entwickler Bill #Atkinson mit 74 Jahren verstorben

Durch seine #Arbeit an #Quickdraw und #Macpaint gilt er als wichtiger #Apple- #Entwickler. Nun ist #BillAtkinson an Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs verstorben.

#SteveJobs holte Atkinson als Mitarbeiter Nr. 51 zu #Apple und zum ersten Entwicklungsteam der Firma. Dem #Programmierer ist die #Quickdraw- #Bilschirmtechnologie mit ihren auffälligen abgerundeten Ecken zu verdanken.

https://www.golem.de/news/kopf-hinter-quickdraw-entwickler-bill-atkinson-mit-74-jahren-verstorben-2506-196954.html

Took advantage of the long week-end to make a new release of my personal project: QuickDraw viewer, a tool to visualise and convert QD images used on old Macintosh computer into something modern like PDF or PNG.

This was mostly a maintenance release, switching to Swift 6 and adding the relevant synchronisation annotations. It's far from perfect but it works. I also improved the localisation, and some the documentation.

#quickdraw #retrocomputing #swift #macosx

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer