Posted By
Luca
on 2017-01-31
16:36:57
 |  Re: Two Lost Demos From TPSH
The origins of "Face of a Woman" picture and its whole brotherhood are in the hands of Bill Atkinson, inbetween the development from Lisa User Interface to Mac UI, while studying innovative graphic routines which would eventually become the core of QuickDraw.
Being a professional photographer, the "Face of a Woman" could have been taken from his own portfolio, and used to be digitalized with a modified fax machine just to test the power of 720x360 monochrome graphics with halftone patterns routine. Having reached another milestone, as usual he'd taken a picture with the polaroid he used to keep on his table.
Lately, Bill himself has distributed those pictures as a demo under the Apple label, downscaled in resolution.
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