Soviet Image Editing Tool From 1987 146
nacturation writes "Three years before Photoshop 1.0 was released, computer engineers in the USSR were already retouching photographs using some surprisingly advanced technology. A video shows how the Soviets went about restoring damaged images with the help of rotary scanners, magnetic tape, and trackballs. No word on whether this technology was used to fake moon landings or put missiles in Cuba." Photo manipulation in the USSR (and elsewhere) had a pretty good jump on computers, though.
I would have been more impressed (Score:5, Insightful)
But they were doing this stuff with deluxe paint on an Amiga in 1985.
"Damaged" images. (Score:4, Insightful)
And they used it for "restoring damaged images". Yeah. Sure.
Images that were "damaged," for example, by having Trotsky [wikipedia.org] in them.
Re:"Damaged" images. (Score:4, Insightful)
And they used it for "restoring damaged images". Yeah. Sure.
Images that were "damaged," for example, by having Trotsky [wikipedia.org] in them.
He has crazy eyes...
Stalin was having people edited out for years... (Score:3, Insightful)
You'd be written in and out of the "history" books.
Zinoviev died, and was written out.
Trotski was murdered in Mexico, and was written out.
Hundreds and thousands were written out of existence, their tombstones chiseled clean.
That was one of the points in 1984.
Control the books and you control the history of a people. Winston Smith job was working as a "redactor", part of the problem, even as he sought, and failed, to find a solution.
People who could recite the history of the lottery numbers chosen at what date could be counted on not to remember that a partner one day was an enemy the next, basically Stalin's form of control, a paranoid/schizophrenic view of humanity where the "others" are all pawns to be played and discarded.(Saddam Hussein was a Stalinist in more ways that one.)
The Gulags were filled with them, and ultimately the cemeteries were filled with imaginary adversaries, by the venial the opportunistic; the survivors who felt less shame at their survival than they felt for their victims.
Re:"Damaged" images. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Now that's for a responsive UI (Score:4, Insightful)
While the image repainting was slow simply due to memory bandwidths back then, one can't but be amazed at the instantaneous response from the right-hand menu system. It seems like it took one or two vsyncs for the new menu to appear in response to a keystroke. This is something that you still can't get on modern OSes simply because there's always the VM subsystem in the way.
That's all very true, except that you're completely wrong. Seriously, what? I get those lags even on systems where I've temporarily disabled swap. I wholeheartedly agree that most X GUIs are painfully laggy - I hate that my 7MHz Amiga 1000 was much more responsive than my dual-core 3GHz desktop - but that has everything to do with the interactions between toolkits, X, and the apps using those toolkits and nothing at all to do with paging. And while you're at it, quit saying "VM" when you mean "paging". While you commonly see them together, they're nowhere near the same.
Re:In fact it is French PERICOLOR-1000 Software (Score:3, Insightful)