[HN Gopher] Tomoya Ikeda - Macintosh Artist
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       Tomoya Ikeda - Macintosh Artist
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 102 points
       Date   : 2021-12-17 16:39 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
        
       | blululu wrote:
       | This sort of internet click hole is exactly what I enjoy most
       | about Hacker News. Led me into an interview with Jack Eastman -
       | the physicist turned screensaver designer who made the original
       | flying toasters: https://sleepmode.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/jack-
       | eastman Leading to discovering the strange world of After Dark
       | (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(software)) that just
       | screams Berkeley, CA, 1992, #1.
        
       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | A sad ending.
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       | But it reminded me of what a wonderful brave new world (and I
       | don't mean that in a negative, ironic way) it was back then. The
       | computer really was become a tool the artist could enthuse about,
       | make new art with.
        
         | dbtc wrote:
         | O, wonder!         How many goodly creatures are there here!
         | How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,         That has
         | such people in't!
        
       | trm42 wrote:
       | I had partially forgotten the pixel graphics style of 80s - 90s
       | Macintosh scene. Damn, it's crisp and graphical compared to Amiga
       | and PC graphics.
       | 
       | It would be fun to read about the similarities and differences
       | between it, PC, C64 and Amiga graphics scenes as the aesthetics
       | are quite different and limited / moulded by the graphics
       | peculiarities of every system.
        
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