Photon Paint

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Photon Paint
Original author MicroIllusions
Developers Oren Peli, Eyal Ofek, Amir Zbeda (BazboSoft)
Initial release1987;39 years ago (1987)
Stable release
2.0 / 1989;37 years ago (1989)
Operating system Amiga OS, Mac OS
Platform Amiga, Macintosh
Type Bitmap graphics editor

Photon Paint is a Hold-And-Modify (HAM) based bitmap graphics editor for the Amiga, first released in 1987. [1] [2] [3] [4] Photon Paint was the first bitmap graphics editor to incorporate 3D solid modeling and texture mapping as an integral part of the program. [5] [4]

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Photon Paint was programmed by Oren Peli, Eyal Ofek, and Amir Zbeda at Bazbosoft, an Israeli software house. It was published by MicroIllusions distributed worldwide. [2] [6]

The program sold 250,000 copies and received a best of breed award from Amiga World magazine.[ citation needed ]

Releases

The original Photon Paint v1.0 was released in 1987 for the Amiga. [2] [7] A Macintosh version was released in 1988 by Mediagenic . [8] [9] [10]

Photon Paint v2.0 for the Amiga was released in 1988. [11] [12] [13] [5] [14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Candy, Robin (July 1988). "Engage Photon Drive". The Games Machine . No. 8. pp. 116–117. Archived from the original on 2023-02-18. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
  2. 1 2 3 MicroIllusions (1987), Photon Paint , retrieved 2023-02-18
  3. ↑ Gailes; Shapley (July 1988). "Over the Rainbow" (PDF). ST Amiga Format . No. 1. p. 39.
  4. 1 2 Goode, Roger (August 1988). "Photon Paint: HAM it up". Amiga World . pp. 20, 22, 64.
  5. 1 2 Brawn, Gene (January 1991). "A case in Paint". Amiga World . pp. 26–38.
  6. ↑ Maher, Jimmy (2018-01-26). The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga. MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-53569-4.
  7. ↑ Löwenstein, Richard (May 1992). "Marktübersicht: malprogramme". Amiga Joker . pp. 116–117.
  8. ↑ InkBlot (2023). "Photon Paint - Macintosh Repository". Macintosh Repository. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
  9. ↑ "Macintosh Garden - Visual Arts & Graphics". macintosh681.rssing.com. Archived from the original on 2023-02-18. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
  10. ↑ Arnett, Nick (June 27, 1988). "Mediagenic to Release Paint Program for Mac II". InfoWorld . p. 29.
  11. ↑ "Photon Paint 2.0 - Software - Computing History". The Centre for Computing History. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  12. ↑ "Photon Paint 2.0 (Amiga, 3 1/2" Disk) MicroIllusions - 1988 USA, Canada Release". Eli's Software Encyclopedia.
  13. ↑ Software Reviews on File. Vol. 8. Facts on File, Incorporated. 1992. p. 51.
  14. ↑ Goode, Roger (September 1989). "Photon Paint 2.0 A tempting touch-up". Amiga World . pp. 78–80.

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