1973 the first digital art contest was going on between Richard "Dick" Shoup and Damon Rarey at the SuperPaint computer system. While Damon was ahead in the competition, in the aftermath all graphic designer have won.
This is a tribute to them and what their achievements made possible for all of us. Needles to mention again that vector designs and layouts are made in #SVG with @inkscape, isn't it?
Even when development started in summer '79 it took twice as long as Apple expected, not only because they had to get rid of Jobs first. So LISA wasn't launched earlier than 1983 with 1Mb RAM for almost U$D 10K. The project was a $50 million investment for Apple Inc., and kept losses low since it sold almost 5K units annually. After 27 months it was in-house competition that buried the Lisa computers, litterally. In the end it was a zero sum game for Apple, but a huge step for modern graphic user-interfaces and more personal computers.
@26aafa19 Great story!
"Since stone carving & installation were the most expensive items for the overall project, the monks decided to tackle that job themselves. This meant learning the whole CNC stone-carving workflow, all about stone cutting machinery, operating CNC machines, CAD modelling, CAM programming, stone masonry & construction techniques...
not without a few disasters..."
Still rough and ready, but I think "the header image on the wiki page for Constructive Solid Geometry" makes a pretty good "hello-world" for a CAD framework
I looks like there are an abundance of different web based tools. Some are too basic, some are too complicated for my brain and some are too expensive for my slim wallet. #gardening@gardening#CAD#design
60th Anniversary of CAD #graphics
1963 #Sketchpad was developed by Ivan Sutherland on the #TX0 computer at #MIT#LincolnLab. It was proof of concept together with the first vector #plotter graphics of Z64 #ZUSEKG
Notice the fine details and meta levels, still using monochrome CAD outlines for this digital @art work while emulating paint effects in colorful retrospective and virtual tribute tooted into the Fediverse.