[squeak-dev] Morphic 3 defensive disclosure

J. Vuletich (mail lists) juanlists at jvuletich.org
Fri Dec 6 12:21:36 UTC 2013


Hi Tim,

Quoting tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:

>
> On 03-12-2013, at 6:23 PM, J. Vuletich (mail lists)  
> <juanlists at jvuletich.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Big news! The first defensive disclosure about Morphic 3 has been  
>> accepted and published at  
>> http://www.defensivepublications.org/publications/prefiltering-antialiasing-for-general-vector-graphics and  
>> http://ip.com/IPCOM/000232657
>
> … amusingly it cites a reference to a paper by an old colleague of  
> mine, Satish Gupta -

Yes, it is the earliest description of prefiltering I found. A pioneer.

> I had an experimental hardware graphics board built by Satish back  
> in 1984 stuck in my (first in Europe!) PC-AT when I was an IBMer.  
> 640x480 16bpp (I think) hardware anti-aliased graphics back in the  
> days of Hercules monochrome boards.

In 1984! That year I started programming. 256x192 1bpp on a CoCo. I  
would have loved to see that beauty you had.

> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Never write software that anthropomorphizes the machine. They hate that.


Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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