[QuadList] Alvy Ray Smith: RGBA, the birth of compositing & the founding of Pixar

[Dave Sieg]

It was great to see Dick Shoup get the credit he deserves.
It was also great to hear a firsthand account of the idiotic suit Quantel
brought claiming they invented the paint algorithm.
I'm surprised Sunstone ended up on Quad.
I visited the famous NYIT graphics lab in the early eighties but I don't
recall seeing any quads.

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:57 AM, C. Park Seward <park at videopark.com> wrote:

> I was pleased the Alvy Ray asked me to restore his original Quad of
> "Sunstone". Th tape wasn't in great shape and I had to cut and paste and
> paint some corrections. It looks great now. Alvy writes, "I received the
> new DVDs today and just looked at them. Sunstone lives again!
> Excellent job."
>
> The clip in the article is not my transfer.
>
> The story also talked about Aurora. I bought one of their workstation
> systems. Expensive back then but it did work. Expensive 80 MB removable
> drives.
>
> Junaid tried to bring out a paint system at Accom. He showed it at one NAB
> but too many companies were in line to sue him so he cancelled the project.
>
> Best,
> Park
>
> C. Park Seward
> Cell: 818-535-2747
> Home: 541-476-6657
> 2" Quad and 1" "C" transfers
> The Transfer Lab at Video Park
> Visit us: http://www.videopark.com
>
>
>
> On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Scott Thomas wrote:
>
> Cool article here:
>
> http://www.fxguide.com/featured/alvy-ray-smith-rgba-the-birth-of-compositing-the-founding-of-pixar/
>
> To make this on topic, Quad is mentioned in this article.
>
> It's also tangentially related to digital video and the framebuffers that
> make up the digital video landscape.
>
> Also, Alvy Ray and Junaid Sheikh have crossed paths. :)
>
>
>
> Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.
>
> Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.
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