{"id":951,"date":"2013-02-15T07:28:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2013-02-16T07:50:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T12:50:40","slug":"retro-gif-of-the-week-digital-still-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/951\/retro-gif-of-the-week-digital-still-life","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro GIF of the Week ]<\/span> Digital Still Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vintage<\/a>Click to see other views of this image: [ Original Size<\/a> ] [ 2X Zoom<\/a> ] [ 4:3 Ratio<\/a> ]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Have you ever seen an edible still life rendered in 16-color EGA?<\/p>\n

It appears that this image, which shows fruits and vegetables, cheese, and a napkin or folded tablecloth, originated as either a video capture or a scan of a photograph that was then digitally cleaned up to isolate the centerpiece in absolute blackness.<\/p>\n

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I have no clue as to its ultimate origin, but I found that it gained its June 7, 1988 file date from either a BBS file section or a CD-ROM collection, as I’ve discovered a number of other GIFs on cd.textfiles.com<\/a> with the same file date. (By the way, I cannot overstate the historical importance of that collection. It’s brilliant.)<\/p>\n

I haven’t mentioned this before, but I’ve started adding a 4:3 aspect ratio view in the image links above when necessary. This image has dimensions of 640×350 (a 4:2.1875 ratio), but when it was viewed on monitors of the day, it would have been stretched into a roughly 4:3 aspect ratio, making the pixels appear non-square. When viewed today on our precisely square-pixeled displays, the original non-4:3 image appears vertically compressed. So I have manually corrected it to 640×480 in the 4:3 view, which should approximate the view you’d see on a vintage computer monitor at the time.<\/p>\n

[ Wondering what a GIF is? Read the introduction to this column<\/a>. ]<\/em><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Retro GIF of the Week Fact Box<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Source File Name:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\nFRUIT1.GIF<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oldest Known File Date:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\nJune 7, 1988
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Source File Format:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\nGIF – 87a (non-interlaced)<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dimensions:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n640 x 350 pixels (EGA)<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Color Depth:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n4-bit (16 color)<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Color Resolution
(palette size):<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\n		6-bit (64 colors)<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Origin Platform:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\nIBM PC<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derived From:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\nUnknown<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Creation Date:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\nCirca 1987 – 1988<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Artist:<\/font><\/strong><\/small><\/td>\nUnknown<\/font><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nIf 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":"

Click to see other views of this image: [ Original Size ] [ 2X Zoom ] [ 4:3 Ratio ] Have you ever seen an edible still life rendered in 16-color EGA? It appears that this image, which shows fruits and vegetables, cheese, and a napkin or folded tablecloth, originated as either a video capture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,27,47,10],"tags":[276,382,380,277,275,381],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-gif-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-art","tag-ega","tag-fruit","tag-gif","tag-retro-gif","tag-still-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}