Mastodawn

Wonderful artist sitters portrait practice online, Scottish Borders Life Drawing Club with Deryck Henley @derycks.art March 25, 2026, 10 min. ea. @derycksart.bsky.social #onlinedrawing #portrait #digitalart #scottishborderslifedrawingclub #quickportraits #fastportraits #fastsketch #quickdraw

Amy Worrall Mar 10

Current "we take things for granted these days" discovery: QuickDraw doesn't have a way to rotate stuff.

If you want to rotate a PICT 180°, you either have to rasterise it offscreen and read the pixels back in reverse, or you can try using a “picture comment" to get the _printer_ to apply the operation.

And "it is impossible to determine which picture comments are supported by the driver of the current printer”. Helpful.

#MARCHintosh #QuickDraw

ITs History!Jan 12

This isn't just a #geek #portrait in context of #computer #graphics, it's a hommage to #BillAtkinson and his contributions to #WYSIWYG #DTP and #CGI. As #Apple employee no.51 he created #MacPaint on top of #QuickDraw, #Hypercard and much more. TY and #RIP

The #vector #graphic was made in #SVG with #Inkscape running on #Linux, not #Adobe #Illustrator on #MacOS or #OSX.

Janet Dodrill Dec 21

Wonderful artist sitters portrait practice online Scottish Borders Life Drawing Club w/ Deryck Henley @derycks.art Dec. 21, 2025, 10 min. ea. @derycksart.bsky.social #onlinedrawing #portrait #digitalart #scottishborderslifedrawingclub #quickportraits #fastportraits #fastsketch #quickdraw #shortpose

Ars Technica News Nov 12

Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes https://arstechni.ca/Evoh #softwaredevelopment #userinterfacedesign #talesoftechhistory #Vintagecomputing #computerhistory #talesoftechlore #retrocomputing #AndyHertzfeld #ChrisEspinosa #Folklore.org #talesoftech #calculator #classicmac #Macintosh #QuickDraw #retrotech #SteveJobs #Apple #apple #MacOS #Tech #1982 #1984

Ars Technica News Nov 12

The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes https://arstechni.ca/UzcL #softwaredevelopment #userinterfacedesign #talesoftechhistory #Vintagecomputing #computerhistory #talesoftechlore #retrocomputing #AndyHertzfeld #ChrisEspinosa #Folklore.org #talesoftech #calculator #classicmac #Macintosh #QuickDraw #retrotech #SteveJobs #Apple #apple #MacOS #Tech #1982 #1984

The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes

In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.

Ars Technica

Hacker News Oct 20

QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

#HackerNews #QuickDrawViewer #MacOS #QuickDraw #PICT #files #Utility #Visualisation

GitHub - wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files. It allows exporting to PDF format.

A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files. It allows exporting to PDF format. - GitHub - wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files. It allows ex...

GitHub

🔏 Matthias Wiesmann Oct 19

New release (1.8) of my QuickDraw Viewer, some bug fixes, and support for QuickTake 100 pictures.

#retrocomputing #classicmac #graphicprocessing #quickdraw

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer/

GitHub - wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files. It allows exporting to PDF format.

A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files. It allows exporting to PDF format. - GitHub - wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files. It allows ex...

GitHub

🔏 Matthias Wiesmann Oct 10

QuickTake pictures

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/41564

#6502 #AppleII #ComputerGraphics #DigitalCamera #Quickdraw #QuickDrawViewer #QuickTake #QuickTime #Retrocomputing #RGB #YUV