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R.I.P. Nearly half a century ago, a visualization tool for a port (!) morphed into an interpreter for laser printers: "The concepts of the PostScript language
by jll29 3y ago
R.I.P.
Nearly half a century ago, a visualization tool for a port (!) morphed into an interpreter for laser printers:
"The concepts of the PostScript language were seeded in 1976 by John Gaffney at Evans & Sutherland, a computer graphics company. At that time Gaffney and John Warnock were developing an interpreter for a large three-dimensional graphics database of New York Harbor." (Wikipedia)
I read about this also in some book (Coders at Work?), and was surprised it did not originate from the graphics design community, although Warnock's wife is a graphics designer. Adobe wasn't named after a habor, but after the little creek behind Warnock's home in California, apparently.
- hamburglar 3y ago> R.I.P. Funny dual meaning here. "The RIP" (pronounced as a word) is what they called the PostScript unit on a high end imagesetter like a Linotronic or Agfa. It stands for Raster Image Processor. John was a good dude. Brilliant, and the type of leader that was good to work for as an engineer, because he believed the engineering was the point of it all. > Warnock's wife is a graphics designer The story I always heard about Illustrator is that it started out as a program he wrote for her to make editing PostScript art easier. She also designed the original green Adobe logo, which the current red A logo is derived from.
- flopsamjetsam 3y ago> Funny dual meaning here. "The RIP" (pronounced as a word) is what they called the PostScript unit on a high end imagesetter like a Linotronic or Agfa. It stands for Raster Image Processor. I'm happy to say the usage lives on in RIPs small and big, from wide format printers to digital offset presses.