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From: ksbooth@watcgl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Computer graphics history
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 17:41:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 17:41:16 1987
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: history mandrill

Jeff Posdamer inquired about the origins of the mandrill image.  It is
distributed on a mag tape supplied originally by USC (University of Southern
California).  Harry Andrews was a faculty member there at the time.  He also
founded (or co-founded) Comtal.  The actual digitization was presumably
done by an anonymous graduate student.

A related fact:  Another image on the tape shows a woman wearing a hat.
This was the basis for the poster that appeared at SIGGRAPH '86 as the
winner of the Raster Technology contest.  The original source of the
image is a Playboy centerfold.  A recent issue of Playboy contains a
recap of all centerfolds.  (One of our graduate students told me this.  He
also managed to locate a back issue of the original, which has been
digitized.)