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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Eyes (was Just some sortof anecdotes)
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Date: 8 Jun 90 18:00:48 GMT
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Lara here at SGI drew the following article to my attention.

In article <3772@trantor.harris-atd.com>, chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com
(Chuck Musciano) writes:
|>      Regarding items 3 and 4: "those darn neat eyes" first appeared running
|> under SunView, and were later ported to X.  I should know; I wrote the
|> original "eyecon" program in August of 1988 and released it to the net.
|> Subsequent versions appeared for X and NeWS later.  The xeyes demo released
|> with X is dated July, 1989, a year after my version.  However, is there even
|> a mention of my name in the code?  At least I was proper enough to credit
|> Mark Callow, of Silicon Graphics, in my version.  I first saw a version of
|> the eyes program running on an SGI machine under NeWS at SIGGRAPH '88 in
|> Atlanta.  Mark produced that version, to the best of my knowledge.  I was so
|> taken by it I wrote a version for suntools as soon as I got home.
|> 
|>      I was a little disappointed to see the X version appear without
|> proper credit, both to myself and Mark.
|> 

While I would love to take credit for creating the eyes, I can't.  The NeWS
eyes (which were the first) were created by Jeremy Huxtable from England.
Here is the program header.

#! /usr/NeWS/bin/psh
% eye.ps
%
% Jeremy Huxtable
%
% "Big Brother" implementation in PostScript.

Jeremy posted the eyes to comp.windows.news in late July 1988 about a week
before the Atlanta Siggraph.  I started eye.ps not knowing what it
would do and then I couldn't stop laughing for about 5 minutes.
They were so much fun I decided to use them during my talk at Siggraph.

I sent email to Chuck a couple of years ago telling him this.  It must
have fallen into a hole somewhere.

The version I use now was modified by Mike Russell from Pixar to stop the
flashing.

I don't subscribe to rec.humor so please email any replies to me.
--
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
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"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."