This blog entry should start geek alarms off across both hemispheres - and I offer no apologies. When Mac OS 8 came out, it had a mysterious and beautiful application called Graphing Calculator. I used to marvel at the way it could graph and animate relatively complex surfaces in real time. This was, after all, 1994 and the PowerPC-powered Macintoshes were scarily ahead of their time back then - although that had as much to do with the interface at the time: a fact that may provoke alarm at Microsoft considering the continued stasis of Longhorn. Anyway, Graphing Calculator (below, and I took this screenshot this evening, fact fans)
was a bit of a wow.
The Graphing Calculator Story is a lovely story of the stupid randomness of many innovative processes and an illustration of the beauty you can achieve if you FAIL TO GET A MORTGAGE.
Oh, and if you're talented. Heh. Forgot that bit. Bother.
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