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David A. Moon was one of the founders of Symbolics and one of the chief architects of its Lisp machines. In 1991, after he left Symbolics and joined Apple, he wrote this retrospective of Genera, "the world's first commercial object-oriented operating system": https://archive.org/details/genera-retrospective-1991

#Symbolics #LispMachine #LispMachines #Lisp #CommonLisp #OperatingSystems #OperatingSystem #OSDev #OOP #ObjectOrientedProgramming #ComputerHistory #ComputingHistory #Retrocomputing #Apple #AppleATG

David A. Moon was one of the founders of Symbolics and one of the chief architects of its Lisp machines. In 1991, after he left Symbolics and joined Apple, he wrote this retrospective of Genera, "the world's first commercial object-oriented operating system": https://archive.org/details/genera-retrospective-1991

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Yaroslav Khnygin

I have scanned and uploaded a manual for Symbolics S-Render, version 10 from 1985: https://archive.org/details/symbolics-s-render

"S-Render is a software package that is used in conjunction with S-Paint, S-Geometry, and S-Dynamics to produce visually realistic 3D objects and scenes."

#Symbolics #SymbolicsGraphicsDivision #LispMachine #Lisp #LispMachines #ComputerHistory #ComputingHistory #Retrocomputing #CGI #VintageCGI #ComputerGraphics #ComputerAnimation #Animation #Preservation

A grey book cover with embossed brush strokes that says:
"SYMBOLICS
S-RENDER
GRAPHICS
DIVISION"

CONTENTS

I GETTING STARTED 1 I Entering S-Render 1 Using the Mouse 2

BASIC CONCEPTS 3

I Rendering Models 3 l Opacity 5 I Normals 5 Interpolation 6

I Color by Vertex 7 l Opacity by Vertex 7 I Light Sources 8 I USING THE ATTRIBUTES MENU 9 Specifying Colors 12

I Specifying Light Sources 12 | Specifying Light Databases 16 I EXERCISE 18

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Yaroslav Khnygin

Also as a bonus, Symbolics Genera 7.0 Customer Letter and Publications Order Form:
https://archive.org/details/symbolics-genera-7.0-customer-letter
https://archive.org/details/symbolics-pub-order-form-oct-1-1986

28 July at 0:56 | Open on mastodon.ie

technicat

@surabax Those graphics packages lasted a long time. I ported them to SGI and Franz ACL in the 90s when it was owned by Nichimen Graphics and the packages were called N-Geometry, N-Paint, etc. then they renamed the whole thing Mirai and it was used by one of the artists who left to work on Lord of the Rings. Larry Malone worked on Geometry from beginning to end.

https://spiraloid.artstation.com/projects/o693m