#quickdraw — Public Fediverse posts
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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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QuickDraw Viewer now supports Digital Video encoded QuickTime embedded images.
#retrocomputing #classicmac #mac #quicktime #quickdraw #digitalvideo
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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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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
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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 -
Writing a QuickDraw decoder gave me some ideas on how to generate compact Pict images. This could be useful when small programs are desirable, like when they are stored in a ROM chip. #retrocomputing #classicmac #classicmacos #quickdraw #quicktime #imageprocessing https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/37513
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TIL: JPEG-2000 uses the same container than MPEG-4, which is basically the son of QuickTime. Which means when it is actually embedded inside a QuickTime stream, there seems to a magical 8 byte prefix, which needs to be stripped to get a valid JPEG-2000 file. Long story short, my QuickDraw viewer should now handle JPEG-2000 data embedded inside QuickTime containers.
#quickdraw #quicktime #jpeg2000 #imageprocessing #retrocomputing #classicmac
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How hard would it be to support the QuickTime image format (QTIF) in my QuickDraw viewer? It turns out, not that hard, and I'm happy to announce this feature now works.
https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer
#quickdraw #quicktime #retrocomputing #classicmac #qtif #imageprocessing #ImageFormat
