Photon Paint
Appearance
![]() Photon Paint 2.0 | |
Original author(s) | MicroIllusions |
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Developer(s) | Oren Peli, Eyal Ofek, Amir Zbeda (BazboSoft) |
Initial release | 1987 |
Stable release | 2.0
/ 1989 |
Operating system | Amiga OS,Mac OS |
Platform | Amiga,Macintosh |
Type | Bitmap graphics editor |
Photon Paintis aHold-And-Modify(HAM) basedbitmap graphics editorfor theAmiga,first released in 1987.[1][2][3][4]Photon Paint was the firstbitmap graphics editorto incorporate 3Dsolid modelingandtexture mappingas an integral part of the program.[5][4]
Photon Paint was programmed byOren Peli,Eyal Ofek, and Amir Zbeda atBazbosoft,an Israeli software house. It was published byMicroIllusionsdistributed worldwide.[2][6]
The program sold 250,000 copies and received a best of breed award from Amiga World magazine.[citation needed]
Releases
[edit]The originalPhoton Paint v1.0was released in 1987 for the Commodore Amiga.[2][7]AMacintoshversion was released in 1988 byMediagenic.[8][9][10]
Photon Paint v2.0for the Amiga was released in 1988.[11][12][13][5][14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Candy, Robin (July 1988)."Engage Photon Drive".The Games Machine.No. 8. pp. 116–117.
- ^abcMicroIllusions (1987),Photon Paint,retrieved2023-02-18
- ^Gailes; Shapley (July 1988)."Over the Rainbow"(PDF).ST Amiga Format.No. 1. p. 39.
- ^abGoode, Roger (August 1988)."Photon Paint: HAM it up".Amiga World.pp. 20, 22, 64.
- ^abBrawn, Gene (January 1991)."A case in Paint".Amiga World.pp. 26–38.
- ^Maher, Jimmy (2018-01-26).The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga.MIT Press.ISBN978-0-262-53569-4.
- ^Löwenstein, Richard (May 1992)."Marktübersicht: malprogramme".Amiga Joker.pp. 116–117.
- ^InkBlot (2023)."Photon Paint - Macintosh Repository".Macintosh Repository.Retrieved2023-02-18.
- ^"Macintosh Garden - Visual Arts & Graphics".macintosh681.rssing.Retrieved2023-02-18.
- ^Arnett, Nick (June 27, 1988)."Mediagenic to Release Paint Program for Mac II".InfoWorld.p. 29.
- ^"Photon Paint 2.0 - Software - Computing History".The Centre for Computing History.
- ^"Photon Paint 2.0 (Amiga, 3 1/2" Disk) MicroIllusions - 1988 USA, Canada Release ".Eli's Software Encyclopedia.
- ^Software Reviews on File.Vol. 8. Facts on File, Incorporated. 1992. p. 51.
- ^Goode, Roger (September 1989)."Photon Paint 2.0 A tempting touch-up".Amiga World.pp. 78–80.
Other sources
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