Like the adage says, a picture is worth a thousand words. I will let the images speak for themselves.
Questions?
I used to work at Deneba Canvas back in the early 90’s. Canvas had a famous drawing that became iconic with the software package which was that of a cut-away of a F40 Ferrari. The original illustration was done by David Kimble who spent like 6 months at the Ferrari plant going through technical drawings, specs and what not. David Rumfelt was a ‘computer illustrator’ at Deneba, and reproduced Kimble’s illustration. He vectorized it into Canva objects, and if memory serves me right it took him almost 3 months.
The original drawing had about 28,000 objects because of the limitation on PCs of yesteryear, mostly because on the Mac, there was this thing that probably a few of us has have to deal with, that of Fixed number notation. Ergo, the reason Canvas 3.0 had a limit on the number of objects on the display list.
I few months ago, I realized I had the a version of the file F40 in Illustrator format, from when I started working in Illustrator back at Adobe. I took the F40 eps file, exported as SVG and read it into the Corona SDK simulator using a simple SVG parser.
Thats my teaser for now, and to the folks who bought Deneba, don’t send your lawyers as am not ‘commercializing’ the image. It is for my own private use. From a product that I have been fond of, and proud to have been a member of its core engineering team. Mario, Patrick, Sanjay, Phil, Dave, Gerry, Tom, Mark, Joaquin, Jorge, Steve and a few others. Here is to the original days of Canvas.
What does it all mean?
Carlos
Funny coincidence. I had that same image on my desktop for 3 years while studying Engineering. Such an amazing picture.
Deneba would print this out on a huge plotter and give the posters away at MacWorld Expo, if I recall. Or maybe they were handing them out, because I had a huge poster of this on my wall in high school!