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This picture shows fast ovals, which were added to LisaGraf as a basic type in spring 1981, using a clever algorithm that didn't require multiplication.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
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Ovals were quickly followed by rectangles with rounded corners, or "RoundRects," which were suggested by Steve Jobs.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
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By May 1981, the Lisa user interface is beginning to solidify. This photo shows scrollable documents of different types in overlapping windows, still sporting folder tabs for titles.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
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RoundRects began to creep into various UI elements, like menus, providing a more sophisticated look, especially when combined with drop shadows.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
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Menus could be be graphical, as well as text-based.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
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The Lisa team was worried about the closed window tabs being obscured by other windows on the desktop, so Atkinson added a standard menu on the extreme left called "the tray," which could show and hide opened windows.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
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This photo and the following one show a prototype Atkinson created for the Lisa Graphics Editor (which eventually evolved into MacDraw) to demonstrate that modes could sometimes be useful; it was the first program to select modes with a graphical palette, which eventually became the main user interface of MacPaint.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
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Another shot of the Lisa Graphics Editor, which eventually became MacDraw.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
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Finally, in the spring of 1982, Atkinson renamed "LisaGraf" to "QuickDraw" because he wanted a name that was suitable for the Macintosh too.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
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Atkinson added two related features to meet the burgeoning needs of the Lisa applications: pictures and scaling. Pictures were a way of recording graphics operations into a data structure for later playback; this became the basis of both the printing architecture and also cutting and pasting graphics.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."
Apple celebrates 30 years
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Since pictures could be drawn into an arbitrarily sized rectangle, Atkinson added bitmap scaling features.
Credit: Photos courtesy Bill Atkinson. Captions adapted from Andy Hertzfeld's book "Revolution in the Valley."