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

Reactions from the assistance during Bill Atkinson's presentation of MacPaint are a strong reminder of the technical prowesses he did in his code to sublimate the hardware capabilities available at the time.

https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared
#RIP #Apple #BillAtkinson #QuickDraw #InsideMacintosh

I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill. :alogo6:

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114645820628589016

Bill Atkinson: Der Zeitlose Pionier der Computertechnologie
Die Welt der digitalen Innovation hat am 5. Juni 2025 einen ihrer brillantesten Köpfe verloren. Bill Atkinson, der berühmte Macintosh-Pionier und Erfinder von HyperCard, verstarb i
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/bill-atkinson-der-zeitlose-pionier-der-computertechnologie/
#News #Tellerrand #Apple #BillAtkinson #Computerindustrie #Fotografie #HyperCard #Innovation #Macintosh #MagicSlate #QuickDraw #Technologie #WorldWideWeb

RIP Bill Atkinson

#Apple #Mac #Macintosh #inventor #artist #pirate #vintageApple #MacPaint #HyperCard #QuickDraw #hero #RIP

Go ahead. Take a look at the source code of Bill Atkinson's MacPaint and QuickDraw.

'MacPaint was written by Bill Atkinson, who was a member of the original Macintosh development team. He based it on his earlier LisaSketch (also called SketchPad) for the unsuccessful Apple Lisa computer, so he originally called it MacSketch. He started work on the Mac version in early 1983.

'Atkinson also created Quickdraw first for the Lisa, as LisaGraf. Andy Hertzfeld, another key member of the team, considers QuickDraw “the single most significant component of the original Macintosh technology” in its ability to “push pixels around in the frame buffer at blinding speeds to create the celebrated user interface.”'

https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/

#MeaningfulLabor #ComputerHistory #QuickDraw #MacPaint

"It was Mr. Atkinson who programmed QuickDraw, a foundational software layer used for both the Lisa and Macintosh computers; composed of a library of small programs, it made it possible to display shapes, text and images on the screen efficiently."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-dead.html

#obituary #ComputerHistory #QuickDraw #HyperCard #Macintosh #MeaningfulLabor

@OnceUponAGoblin

I'd like to add that he was also the creator of LisaGraf / #QuickDraw which was the graphics library that made it possible for as underpowered machines as the Lisa and the original Macintosh to have faster graphics than machines several times faster than them.

He was a very bright programmer, and understood the math well enough to find ingenious shortcuts for (at the time) mathematically complex things like finding the shape of ellipses.

Wonderful artists as sitters portrait practice online session at Scottish Borders Life Drawing Club with Deryck Henley @derycks.art March 26, 2025. Thanks, Deryck, and all the artist sitters for the free portrait session, 5-7.5-10 minutes each. Digital art, iPad Pro, Procreate. BlueSky @derycksart.bsky.social #onlinedrawing #portraitdrawing #digitalart #ipadpro #procreate #scottishborderslifedrawingclub #scottishborders #quickportraits #fastportraits #fastsketch #quickdraw #shortpose