{"id":15982,"date":"2009-08-18T07:02:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T07:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/08\/vector-graphics-software-from-1963.html"},"modified":"2009-08-18T07:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T07:02:25","slug":"vector_graphics_software_from_1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/vector_graphics_software_from_1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Vector graphics software&#8230; from 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JFK was in office, and yet the app <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sketchpad\">Sketchpad<\/a> (from then-25-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivan_Sutherland\">Ivan Sutherland<\/a>) offered multitouch input, auto-correction of vector strokes, and even reusable symbols (a la Flash, Illustrator, etc.).  Very cool:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mOZqRJzE8xg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nApparently Dr. Sutherland once employed&#8211;you guessed it&#8211;John Warnock, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/02\/meet_adobe_illustrator.html\">seen here introducing Adobe Illustrator<\/a> in 1987. [<a href=\"http:\/\/vector-art.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/vector-art-retrospection-1963_08.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JFK was in office, and yet the app Sketchpad (from then-25-year-old Ivan Sutherland) offered multitouch input, auto-correction of vector strokes, and even reusable symbols (a la Flash, Illustrator, etc.). Very cool: Apparently Dr. Sutherland once employed&#8211;you guessed it&#8211;John Warnock, seen here introducing Adobe Illustrator in 1987. [Via]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,58,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}