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I'm trying to remember when I first came across this "animated eyes follow cursor" effect. I'm fairly certain it was on the Amiga back in the last century. I se
by rikroots 4y ago
I'm trying to remember when I first came across this "animated eyes follow cursor" effect. I'm fairly certain it was on the Amiga back in the last century. I searched Aminet - was it part of the MaxonMagic[1] screensaver suite?
I doubt the Amiga was the first computer to do this. Does anyone have any earlier examples?
[1] - http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/MaxonMAGIC http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/MaxonMAGIC - uploaded in 1993
- Cockbrand 4y agoThe man page for xeyes [1] says that it's been derived from a demo shown in 1988. I seem to remember an even earlier toy on the Amiga which did the same, but I might be wrong. [1] https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html
- rikroots 4y agoI found this reference in the 1988 SIGGRAPH Art Show Review[1] - a possible candidate for the inspiration? "Alan Rath had two works, Word Processor and Bird Cage (see Figure 21) in the show. Bird Cage is a kinetic work created from a microcomputer, digital frame store, and a speech synthesizer. A solenoid system moves the one-inch video monitor inside the cage. The amount of movement is controlled by the intensity of ambient light. The video bird displays a human eye, which looks about and blinks." [1] - https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SIGGRAPH1988_Displays_on_Display_IEEEReview.pdf https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SIGG... (page 23)
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- jkestner 4y agoThis was a whole genre on classic Macs, too. https://happymacs.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/the-eyes-have-it-three-eyeball-programs-for-mac-os-9-x/ https://happymacs.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/the-eyes-have-it-...