Re: FLASH: FLASH History of Flash

[John Dowdell]

I don't have the full story myself, but I remember being impressed by

FutureWave's first MacWorld booth, where they were showing SmartSketch. As

I recall, it was based on some shape-recognition work for portable devices.

When a timeline was added SmartSketch morphed into CelAnimator, which after

a name-conflict became FutureSplash, which became Flash in its first

Macromedia version..


Going back further, Jon Gay developed the groundbreaking SuperPaint

program, which united the world of pixels and the realm of curves... this

was with Silicon Beach Software, which later went with Aldus, which got

sold to Adobe.


It's an interesting story idea, but other people know more than I do... if

you do write it up, then please post a link to the list, thanks!


jd




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