{"id":934,"date":"2012-12-31T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2012-12-31T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T21:27:05","slug":"retro-gif-of-the-week-happy-new-year-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/934\/retro-gif-of-the-week-happy-new-year-1993","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"intv_color\">[ Retro GIF of the Week ]<\/span> Happy New Year 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retrogif\/NEWYEAR.GIF\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retrogif\/newyear_small.jpg\" alt=\"Happy New Year 1993 Raytraced Retro GIF\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Click to see other views of this image:<br \/>[ <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retrogif\/NEWYEAR.GIF\" target=\"_blank\">Original Size<\/a> ] [ <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retrogif\/NEWYEAR_2x.GIF\" target=\"_blank\">2X Zoom<\/a> ]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In honor of the impending New Year, I bring you this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_tracing_%28graphics%29\" target=\"_blank\">ray traced<\/a> image that dates back to December 1992 &#8212; 20 years ago &#8212; and celebrates New Year 1993.<\/p>\n<p>As per its inscription, this image was created using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/StrataVision_3D\" target=\"_blank\">StrataVision 3D<\/a> and retouched with PhotoMac by its author, CT.  I have not determined who CT is yet, but I will do some more poking around soon and update this entry if I find out.  (If you find out first, please let me know.)<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><center><small><em>[ Wondering what a GIF is? Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/912\" target=\"_blank\">introduction to this column<\/a>. ]<\/em><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\" colspan=\"2\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#004080\"><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#FFFFFF\" size=\"2\"><strong>Retro GIF of the Week Fact Box<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Source File Name:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><font face=\"Arial\">NEWYEAR.GIF<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Source File Date:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><font face=\"Arial\">December 16, 1992<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Source File Format:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><font face=\"Arial\">GIF &#8211; 87a (non-interlaced)<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Dimensions:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><font face=\"Arial\">640 x 480 pixels<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Color Depth<br \/>(bits per pixel):<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><font face=\"Arial\">8-bit (256 color)<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Origin Platform:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><font face=\"Arial\">Macintosh<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Derived From:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><font face=\"Arial\">Unknown<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Creation Date:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><font face=\"Arial\">Likely December 1992<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Artist:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\"><small><font face=\"Arial\">CT<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"100%\" height=\"30\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\">\n<small><font face=\"Arial\">If you know more about the origin of this image, please leave a comment.<\/font><\/small>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to see other views of this image:[ Original Size ] [ 2X Zoom ] In honor of the impending New Year, I bring you this ray traced image that dates back to December 1992 &#8212; 20 years ago &#8212; and celebrates New Year 1993. As per its inscription, this image was created using StrataVision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,40,27,47,10],"tags":[277,324,326,102,327,325,275,328],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-regular_features","category-retro-gif-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-gif","tag-happy-new-year","tag-holidays","tag-macintosh","tag-photomac","tag-raytraced","tag-retro-gif","tag-stratavision-3d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}