A Blast from the Past – Image of the Week

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I thought I would take a walk down memory lane this week and display one of my computer illustrations from 1992. This is a portrait of my pet iguana, Rex. This image is entirely vector based and was created using CorelDRAW on a 486-33 IBM compatible with 8 megs of RAM, a 120 meg hard drive. It took me over 150 hours to complete this image – obviously I had more free time then. In the background of this image is a scan of my fingerprint which I divided into the squares and then assigned each square a different rendering technique. To complete the image, I broke it into 55 different pieces, exported it and then imaged each piece individually using a digital slide recorder.

Now, 17 years later, as I work on my 8 core dual Xenon computer with 16GB of RAM and 2 TB of hard drive space, I marvel at how much faster and easier this image would be to create. Sometimes, it is easy to forget how advanced computers have become. The interesting thing to contemplate is what we will we be able to do 17 years from now.

You can view this image in my gallery under miscellaneous>> miscellaneous-still-life >> iguana.