Bill's been very active in Photography for a long time, since he retired from Apple 19 or 20 years ago quite possibly. He has been involved with color inkjet printing for a good while (IIRC, most of the Epson professional printer color calibration profiles (like the 7600, 7800, etc) are his handiwork).
MacPaint started out as being his testing rig to exercise the QuickDraw graphics library routines that he created (originally for the Lisa, then translated and moved to Macintosh), and everyone liked it so much they turned it into one of the original applications distributed with every Macintosh. Amazing what could be done with simple one-bit graphics, eh? Bill's photography shows the same attention to detail and thoughtfulness that his programming did. I used to run into him at Calypso Imaging in Santa Clara from time to time, until Calypso moved to Santa Cruz and then later closed its doors. We were both at Apple at the same time for a brief moment, but he was on the way out as I entered the company. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:52 AM, CheekyGeek <[email protected]> wrote: > A news story today reminded me of one of my favorite programmers: Bill > Atkinson who wrote (entirely) the original MacPaint program and was > also responsible for the revolutionary Hypercard program/paradigm. > Doing a bit of Googling, I discovered that he has become a pretty darn > good nature photographer. Thought I'd share with the class: > > Image collections: http://www.billatkinson.com/CatalogIndex.html > About the artist: http://www.billatkinson.com/aboutTheArtist.html > > Darren Addy > Kearney, NE > -- > Nothing is sure, except Death and Pentaxes. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
