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From: wallis@weitek.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Computer graphics history (mandrill)
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Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 20:36:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 20:36:35 1987
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Keywords: history mandrill
Summary: How the monkey got scanned



>in the fog and I am not sure I believed it at the time. Does anyone out
>there KNOW (not guess or speculate) where, when and who digitized the
>mandrill.


That was me and a fellow named and Mark Sanders, some time back in the early
70s.  I was one Bill Pratt's graduate students, and we scanned the monkey off
the back page of a photography magazine, I think it was a advertisement for a
Graphlex camera. We used a Muirhead drum scanner which was originally designed
for use with a fax machine. The display we had was made by John Tahl when he
was at Aerojet (the refresh memory was a magnetic drum).  He later started his
own company (Comtal), and adopted the mandrill image as sort of a logo.  Harry
Andrews ensured the image's immortality by including it among the standard USC
test images that have ended up everywhere.

Mark Sanders died in about 1975.

Bob Wallis

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