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  1. Partly because of our #MetaPost workshop of next week at #AutomaticType #anrt @ANRT automatic-type-design.anrt-nan with @Ludi @eugbidaut @AntoineGelgon I'm reading an old brochure on (the always incredibly rich) archive.org about the "#Compugraphic Modular Composition System"
    ia801000.us.archive.org/29/ite
    #photocomposition #typography
    (lot of text in the alt of pictures)
    According to the Compugraphic page on wikipedia "Following the success of the EditWriter, Compugraphic introduced [somewhere in the 70's] the Modular Composition System, known as the "MCS". The entire system was modular, including the software, which was delivered on 5" floppy disks. As the product matured, a "#WYSIWYG" (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) display was added (the PreView) so that a user could see a "soft" view of a job before it was typeset. This was followed up by the PowerView whereby the user worked directly on a "WYSIWYG" display. The MCS was a huge success, and also marked a change in technology from 8bit to 16bit (Intel 8086) cpu hardware."

  2. #streetart #pixelart #NuancesDeGris #Paris #VictorHugo #Tribute #Hommage

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    En arrivant sur la place des Vosges, dans le 3ème, on est accueilli par cet étonnante représentation du visage de Victor Hugo.
    Pour la petite histoire, sa maison/musée est à moins de 200m.

    Ce qui me bluffe, chaque fois que je passe devant cette œuvre, depuis au moins 6 ans, qu'elle est là, c'est qu'en s'approchant, on distingue bien un travail de "pixelisation", "pointillisme", or quoi-la-baise-tu-appelles-le.

    Mon grand-père avait une imprimerie dans les 70's, je me souviens de ce genre de vue quand il est passé à la #photocomposition