#quickdraw — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quickdraw, aggregated by home.social.
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Wonderful artist sitters portrait practice online, Scottish Borders Life Drawing Club with Deryck Henley @derycks.art March 25, 2026, 10 min. ea. @derycksart.bsky.social #onlinedrawing #portrait #digitalart #scottishborderslifedrawingclub #quickportraits #fastportraits #fastsketch #quickdraw
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Current "we take things for granted these days" discovery: QuickDraw doesn't have a way to rotate stuff.
If you want to rotate a PICT 180°, you either have to rasterise it offscreen and read the pixels back in reverse, or you can try using a “picture comment" to get the _printer_ to apply the operation.
And "it is impossible to determine which picture comments are supported by the driver of the current printer”. Helpful.
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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
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QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files
https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer
#HackerNews #QuickDrawViewer #MacOS #QuickDraw #PICT #files #Utility #Visualisation
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QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files
https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer
#HackerNews #QuickDrawViewer #MacOS #QuickDraw #PICT #files #Utility #Visualisation
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QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files
https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer
#HackerNews #QuickDrawViewer #MacOS #QuickDraw #PICT #files #Utility #Visualisation
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QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files
https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer
#HackerNews #QuickDrawViewer #MacOS #QuickDraw #PICT #files #Utility #Visualisation
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QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files
https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer
#HackerNews #QuickDrawViewer #MacOS #QuickDraw #PICT #files #Utility #Visualisation
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New release (1.8) of my QuickDraw Viewer, some bug fixes, and support for QuickTake 100 pictures.
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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
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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
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So now, I'm reverse engineering the Claris Works comments for gradients in Apple QuickDraw pictures.
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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!
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QuickDraw Viewer now supports Digital Video encoded QuickTime embedded images.
#retrocomputing #classicmac #mac #quicktime #quickdraw #digitalvideo
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Released version 1.6 of my QuickDraw view application.
The most significant change is support for pattern operations.#quickdraw #retrocomputing #classicmac #computergraphics #vectorgraphics
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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
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QuickDraw Viewer – Habeamus PixPatternum
https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41122
#ClassicMac #ComputerGraphics #Quickdraw #Retrocomputing #Swift
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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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QuickDraw Viewer – ICC Profiles
https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41085
#ClassicMac #color #ColorCorrection #ColorSpace #ComputerGraphics #ICC #PDF #Quickdraw #Retrocomputing
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For my QuickDraw renderer, I'm looking for a Pict file with an embedded ColorSync profile, would anyone have such a file?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In honor of Bill Atkinson, I’ve been reading the QuickDraw source code released by CHM and writing a little C implementation of his Region structure, which was an incredibly elegant solution to a problem so many people working on window systems never even realized they had. RIP Bill. #retrocomputing #BillAtkinson #QuickDraw
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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.
