Hi guys, Just popping by to greet all the fellows here a Merry Xmas and a Happy 2015 ahead! Stay Positive and look on the bright side!
Chris Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Dec, 2013, at 7:07 am, Matt Lind <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > 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]> 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]] On Behalf Of > [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]> > To: "[email protected]" <[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]] 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]> > 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. > > >
