Olin Lathrop wrote:

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...The year was 1985...
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Hi Olin,

Thanks for the hint. Hmm, 1985, I was a junior in high school an all we had in school were IBM PCs and Apple IIs. I purchased my first computer, a Commodore 128, on August 19, 1985 (still have the antique). The C-128 did not have beautiful graphics like the ones you posted. 

Tron came out in 1982 and that was pretty big at the time but 3 years earlier than 1985.

If you tell me that those images were produced by Adobe's Postscript language, I would be impressed (I believe Postscript was released in 1985).

The mid 1980s were big on pastels -- was that an early storyboard for Miami Vice? (Yes, that was supposed to be a joke).

Something to do with texture mapping? Z-buffer?


Ok, sorry, it's time to spill the beans:

Here's the ASCII in the TIFF files you posted:

Looking at long hallway from afar (TEMPLE). 2006 JAN 14 10:34:37  EST  Copied from file   D:\apollo\quest2.img
Looking down the long hallway (ARCADE). 2006 JAN 14 10:34:27  EST  Copied from file   D:\apollo\quest1.img

Are these clues?

1) Is the answer in your book?

2) Were the images produced by an Apollo workstation?

3) Quest1 and Quest2: Was 'Quest' a video game? 

4) Was the graphics engine based on a Motorola 68xxx processor?

5) Is this related to IBM's release of the VGA standard? Not sure how close to 1985 that was.

Well, I'm out of guesses...tag you're it! :)

Best regards,

Ken Pergola

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