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Craig Hickman was my Prof at UofO. Took his Digital Arts class in 1986 for one quarter and wrote an early proto color paint program inspired by MacPaint, on a G
by jnaina 2y ago
Craig Hickman was my Prof at UofO. Took his Digital Arts class in 1986 for one quarter and wrote an early proto color paint program inspired by MacPaint, on a Graphics Frame Store system that uses serial port to communicate with a Mac 128K.
The system had basic graphics primitives built-in and the system drew the images based on the commands received. Forgot the name of said graphics frame store, which if I recall had 8-bit color and had "Vector" as part of it's name (though it uses raster CRT with bit maps and not vector displays).
Craig was an early pioneer in using computer color graphics for Art.
- jnaina 2y agoFound it. It was the Vectrix VX128 (the 8-bit colour model). The ad from Byte magazine below. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/vectrix/Vectrix_Ad_Byte_Jun83.jpg http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/vectrix/Vectrix_Ad_By...
- Anon4Now 2y agoYou might enjoy this, then: http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years
- jnaina 2y agoNice. Thank you. Craig is a wonderful and generous guy, and a great teacher/professor. He noticed that I was looking to learn as much as I can about graphics programming (I was doing Comp Sci) and gave me access to some neat toys, including an Apollo Domain.
- vikrum 2y agoThe web app somehow made its way to him! He sent me an extremely endearing message that it was fun to see his 2yo grandson using it! (Craig had originally made Kid Pix for his son who is now a graphic, ui, and ux designer). I let him know I made this port for my own daughter as a pandemic-project.