My computer graphics career has circular logic. My first computer was the Apple II when I was barely in grade school and had to write commands to draw pictures like:
HLINE 60, 80 COLOR=8 RUN In college I used the Amigas 500 thru 4000 systems with deluxe paint, video toaster, DCTV, Lightwave 0.9, and so on, but just before graduation I had the luxury of working with the ever popular Tandy TRS-80 for use with motion control camera stands to do multi-planar and slit scans. Caused so much interference we couldn't get reception on the boombox despite being located only a few blocks away from the Sears Tower where the signals were broadcast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 Shortly after that I got my chance on the SGI with Softimage Creative Environment 2.6 Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Lampi Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: positivity WICAT systems, System 300 and 150. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/wicat/brochures/System_300_Brochure.pdf<http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/wicat/brochures/WISE_Brochure.pdf> 1988 I worked for a defense contractor making computer based training lessons for a naval combat system. It had vector graphics program, it had a 16 color palette based on 4096 colors and one of 16 was used overlay laser disc video. I didn't have a mouse or a gui. It was a command line interface, to activate a drawing mode, cl - create line, cb- create box etc... I had to use the arrow keys to move the cursor around to pin start and end points for elements. I won't even get into what it took to do animation on it. My boss was a 55 year old retired Master Chief from Texas who ate ramen noodles every day for lunch and never washed his coffee cup, EVER. He told me once that a graphic I was working on was wrong because it looked skewed if he looked at the screen off center. Good times. Eric Freelance 3D and VFX animator http://vimeopro.com/user7979713/3d-work On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I can say I miss the cheese and monkeys humor and do wonder what Porl is up to these days. But as for old.... Maybe we should have a contest. What's the oldest computer graphics system you worked on, and the year? It doesn't have to be 3D, it can be 2d, print, video, layout, etc. It just had to be a computer than did any kind of graphics. Takers? -- Joey Ponthieux __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:24 PM To: softimage@listproc. autodesk. com Subject: Re: positivity Ha ha yeah Ed, you're old. But dang, so am I. Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE exclusively from Sprint ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ed Harriss" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: positivity Date: Fri, Dec 20, 2013 2:07 PM Maybe we need to go back to a multi-address list system like we had in the old days. There was the discussion list, which was all fun/monkeys/cheese/Porl and there was the Softimage list, which is pretty much what we are using now. There were even other lists like eddie, particle, etc.. (Yea, I'm old..) Anyway, we could have this list stay a Softimage list and create another one for all the gloom and doom. Perfect! Now get to work Autodesk listproc person! ;) Thanks! Happy Holidays! Ed "cheese and monkeys" Harriss From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kris Rivel Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 1:33 PM To: Softimage List Subject: Re: positivity Ha ha...Merry Christmas to all!! LOL. I'm not trying to start anything...just want to see if I'm the only one hearing this. I told the guys that told me to go tell the people that said this to go F themselves for what its worth. It does piss me off to see rumors like this but....I do sit at home mostly working all day and night. I don't get to mingle with my peers as much as I used to so I didn't know if this may be old news or something new. Sounds bunk so I'll leave it at that :-) Kris On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Eric Thivierge <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Only thing I have beef with myself is the thread hijacking that snowballs into a long slog of boohooism. I'm tired of it. In recent times I have to think twice about posting to the list because I'm afraid my thread will get pulled into the black hole of negativity and what could have been a helpful / informative thread will be turned into a bitch-fest. The emPolygonizer thread yesterday that was heading in that direction seriously almost made me unsubscribe. If you want to complain about the demise of a software, have at it. Just stop hijacking threads with it (not aimed specifically Mr. Lampi, in general).. - Eric T.
