MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today via decryption's blog [Shared]
I really enjoyed browsing the BMUG's CD-ROM and discovering early 80s art made in MacPaint, so I browsed all 18,000+ MacPaint images on Discmaster to see what gems I can unearth. Here is some what I found.
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This is one of those fun cases where one blost begets another one in pretty rapid succession.
Nothing deep, just a fun little jaunt through computing memory lane.
I have Dave's toot to thank for the genesis of this post.
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The blank canvas of MacPaint, the moment you open it, still feels like pure magic to me. People keep creating incredible things with it—but just a second before any of that exists, there’s only that quiet, perfect white space. Surrounded by just the tools you’ll need—nothing less, nothing more.
agreed that these are beautiful 
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“MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today”, Anthony Agius (https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html).
解碼部落格 – 80年代中期MacPaint藝術至今仍令人驚艷
➤ 重溫早期數位藝術的魅力
✤ https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html
這篇文章分享了作者從Discmaster光碟中挖掘出的80年代中期使用MacPaint創作的早期數位藝術作品。儘管當時的螢幕解析度和技術有限，這些作品仍展現了藝術家的創意和技巧。作者也表達了對這些藝術家現況的興趣，並計畫探索同時期的Amiga電腦藝術。
+ 哇，沒想到這麼早就有這麼棒的電腦藝術，真是令人驚奇！
+ 看到這些作品，讓我想起了以前用電腦繪圖的時光，充滿了回憶。
#懷舊科技 #數位藝術 #MacPaint
MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
Go ahead. Take a look at the source code of Bill Atkinson's MacPaint and QuickDraw.
'MacPaint was written by Bill Atkinson, who was a member of the original Macintosh development team. He based it on his earlier LisaSketch (also called SketchPad) for the unsuccessful Apple Lisa computer, so he originally called it MacSketch. He started work on the Mac version in early 1983.
'Atkinson also created Quickdraw first for the Lisa, as LisaGraf. Andy Hertzfeld, another key member of the team, considers QuickDraw “the single most significant component of the original Macintosh technology” in its ability to “push pixels around in the frame buffer at blinding speeds to create the celebrated user interface.”'
https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/
