RIP Dr, John Warnock (Adobe(
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i had the privilege of working directly with him when i was on the 4 person skunk-works team that created the proof-of-concept that became Acrobat. He was an inspiration who made everyone ... working insane hours ... feel valued, respected. from John, and Ivar Sunderland, and Martin Newell, Xerox PARC, Canon ... came desktop publishing and direct action via mouse UI's, vector fonts, and so much more. :rose:
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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i had the privilege of working directly with him when i was on the 4 person skunk-works team that created the proof-of-concept that became Acrobat. He was an inspiration who made everyone ... working insane hours ... feel valued, respected. from John, and Ivar Sunderland, and Martin Newell, Xerox PARC, Canon ... came desktop publishing and direct action via mouse UI's, vector fonts, and so much more. :rose:
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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You were very fortunate to know him Bill
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
I agree. Very fortunate. He was Genius. Many moons ago (late 1970's and early 1980's, if memory serves), I implemented Warnock's hidden line elimination algorithm in a program at Grad school. It was designed to process very large CAD images with extreme detail using dynamic overlays and adaptive image partitioning (3D quad trees with pseudo recursion, written in Fortran). It ran on a Data General Eclipse mini-computer (and later on VAX under VMS). There is an example of the hidden line output used by Richard Feynman in his book "What do you care what other people think?" Pg, 159.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
